“The recent tragedy on the outskirts of Moscow, which caused deaths and injuries to hundreds of innocent people, confirms the need for measures to suppress terrorist and extremist activities,” Nurimbetov said when speaking at the 41st meeting of the Organization’s Anti-Terrorist Structure of Shanghai Cooperation.
The important event began this Friday in the Uzbek capital with the participation of delegations of members of the aforementioned organization and Central Asian countries, according to the television channel, Uzbekistan 1.
The vice chancellor recalled that the president of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyóyev, “firmly condemned this atrocity. “We are sure that the organizers and perpetrators will receive inevitable punishment,” he added.
On March 22, a group of armed men fired on a crowd gathered for a rock concert at the Crocus City Hall, located northwest of Moscow, and set fire to the venue. According to the latest official data, the terrorist attack left 143 dead, including children, and around 180 injured.
So far, 11 suspects have been arrested, including the four attackers, originally from Tajikistan, who opened fire on the concertgoers.
President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Monday that the attack was the work of radical Islamists, but assumed that it could be a link in a chain of operations carried out against Russia since 2014 “with the hands of the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.”
According to the Federal Security Service, after the attack the terrorists tried to flee towards the border between Russia and Ukraine. However, Ukraine flatly denied involvement in the attack.
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