CIS interior ministers meet in Kyrgyzstan

Interior ministers from twelve former Soviet states are continuing their meeting in Kyrgyzstan to discuss a joint programme aimed at fighting terrorism.

The talks in the resort town of Cholpon-Ata are taking place amid a series of incursions by Islamic fighters into southern Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

A Kyrgyz spokesman said the ministers from the Commonwealth of Independent States were also expected to sign an agreement on the repatriation of juvenile criminals.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service