"That is the reason why both of us want to go over to practical cooperation in combating this evil", he said.
The FSB first deputy director is visiting Indonesia. On Wednesday he paid a visit to the new antiterrorism center of the Indonesian police in the town of Semarang.
Touching upon what he had seen in Semarang, Mr. Smirnov pointed out the preparedness of the Indonesian side to share their interesting programs of antiterrorism units training.
"In return we are ready to invite Indonesian experts to the Special Operations Center of the Russian FSB. Moreover, they will not be the first there. Chinese experts have already passed training in the Center. At first, they wanted to go through a brief two-week course, but now want a longer period", said the deputy director of the service.
Mr. Smirnov emphasized that the Russian FSB Special Operations Center "had become an elite unit capable of training experts in line with the world level".
Receiving the Russian guest, director of the Semarang-based center Brigadier General Purvoko first of all extended his condolences to the families of the Beslan tragedy victims. "All of us must learn a lesson from those tragic events, that is why Indonesia needs so much the experience that Russia has gained", he noted.
"It is clear form the definition itself that strengthening the counteraction to the international terrorism is only possible through international cooperation, said the general. - And Indonesia invites all countries of the world including Russia, being a victim of terror, to participate. That is why Indonesian antiterrorism experts are sincerely pleased with the visit of the Russian delegation".
The Antiterrorism Center in the town of Semarang was officially opened in July this year and at once nearly became a scene of a terrorist attack. According to a recent statement of General Dai Bahtiar, head of the country's national police, the perpetrators of the terrorist attack committed at the Australian embassy in Jakarta on September 9, which killed 9 and injured 182, had initially planned assassination of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri during the opening ceremony at the center. In the general's opinion, only strict security measures made the terrorists give up the plan.
