MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. The seventh international conference of high representative supervising security matters begins on Tuesday in Chechnya's capital Grozny, the press service of Russia's Security Council said.
Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev will lead the Russian delegation.
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The conference will take two days. International gatherings of this kind are held at the initiative of the Security Council annually in different Russian cities.
The list of attendees of this year's conference includes secretaries of national security councils, ministers, aides to presidents and prime ministers supervising regional and international security, and heads of intelligence services from more than 60 countries.
"The discussions will focus on counteraction to extremism and terrorism, on the ways of supporting regional and international security in the wake of current migration processes, and a buildup of a system of international informational security," the Security Council said.
Apart from plenary sessions, the heads of delegations are expected to hold bilateral meetings and multilateral discussions.
The previous, fifth, international meeting of high representatives in charge of security matters was held in the East-Siberian city of Ulan-Ude last June. Officials from 63 countries and two UN delegations got together there.