BRICS+ COUNTER-TERRORISM CONFERENCE OPENS IN MOSCOW

Wed 03 December 2025:

The 2025 BRICS+ Counter-Terrorism Conference opened in Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced.

Held under the ministry’s auspices, the conference theme is “National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies Amid Emerging Security Challenges and Threats.”

The event brings together officials, civil society, and academics from BRICS+ nations, as well as experts from the UN, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

🚨🇷🇺BRICS+ Anti-Terror Conference kicks off in Moscow

Key topics include blocking terrorist funding, regulating the misuse of information technologies, and countering extremism and radicalisation. pic.twitter.com/M9IMUmZonu

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Discussions are centered on countering terrorist financing, the illicit use of information and communication technologies, extremism, the use of modem information and communication technologies for illegal purposes, combating extremism and attempts to radicalize population. The delegates will separately focus on various theoretical and methodological aspects of the eradication of terrorism, exchange assessments of threats to security at the national, regional and global levels in the context of current geopolitical realities, and share their accumulated experience and effective counter-terrorism practices.

The conference is designed to complement the joint efforts of the association Member countries undertaken within the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Working Group (CTWG) and to further strengthen relevant cooperation on the solid basis of the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Strategy (2020), the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Action Plan (2021), and the CTWG Position Paper (2024).

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