CIS Executive Committee Chairman Sergei Lebedev urged the special services of the member countries to prevent the collapse of the Commonwealth.

Lebedev stated that the unity of the CIS countries is a guarantee of safety not only of the Commonwealth as a whole, but also the security of each of the countries. When they are together, they can solve the most complex problems, he said at the opening of the 40th session of the CIS Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services in Minsk on Friday.

 The chairman also mentioned that there were many enemies, who were trying to destroy the Soviet Union, and they, unfortunately, managed to do it. There are many statements that the associations in the Eurasian union shouldn’t be allowed, as on the one hand it will be a threat to the West, and to the East on the other. Today, the leaders of the security services know that the tireless attempts to destroy the CIS continue, because the principle of divide and conquer is still present in the international arena. He also told the leaders of the security services to protect  the Commonwealth  because it is a guarantee of their common security.

According to him, the security cooperation remains one of the priority areas of cooperation between the CIS countries, RIA Novosti reported.