The international community should abandon double standards on terrorism and start fighting the threat in line with universally-recognized norms of the international law, holds the head of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev.<\/p>\n
In an interview given soon after a recent working visit to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Patrushev said Russia shared the universal concern over the spread of Islamist terrorism and planned to step up the work with Shanghai Cooperation Organization partners China and India in countering this evil.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Russian position over this issue remains unchanged. Dividing terrorists into \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 ones is unacceptable. The struggle against this evil must be conducted strictly in accordance with the norms of international law and decisions of the UN Security Council<\/em>,\u201d Patrushev told Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.<\/p>\n \u201cWe receive confirmations of the fact that the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) is making contacts with terrorists in Russia\u2019s North Caucasus. We will bear this in mind when we make the decisions aimed at strengthening Russia\u2019s security and protection of its borders<\/em>,\u201d he noted. Additionally, the growth of the territories occupied by the IS in Libya caused particular concern, as well as the start of mass executions in that country.<\/p>\n Patrushev also told reporters that he and other Russian officials preferred to use the term \u2018Islamic State\u2019 in quotation marks to avoid insults to true Muslims who, in his view, had no relation to terrorists and extremists. For the same reason he called to refer to the IS by its original name \u2013 the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, or ISIL.<\/p>\n He also promised to coordinate the additional steps in fighting against the ISIL threat with Russia\u2019s partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (the Eurasian military-political bloc uniting China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan).<\/p>\n At the same time, Patrushev noted that the current surge of anti-Russian propaganda in the West was not contributing to the international community\u2019s common effort in fighting terrorism.<\/p>\n In late February this year, the head of Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service, Aleksandr Bortnikov, told reporters that the professional cooperation between special services must continue despite the strained relations between nations. He also expressed hope that the current period of complicated relations between Russia and the United States will eventually end.<\/p>\n RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The international community should abandon double standards on terrorism and start fighting the threat in line with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,44,1],"tags":[78,14,356,20,11,7,141],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-egypt","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-terrorism","tag-u-s","tag-uae"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nikolai-Patrushev..jpg?fit=670%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}