Russia and other ex-Soviet states said on Wednesday they wanted to fight international terrorism but disagreed with the West on whom to brand \"terrorist\". At a meeting of the U.N. Security Council\'s Counter-Terrorism Committee, the ex-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) said it was eager to fight terrorism, but called on its Western partners to avoid \"double standards\". \"We propose denouncing double standards applied to those involved in terrorist acts but frequently referred to as \'religious fighters\' or advocates of a \'national liberation struggle\',\" said Vladimir Rushailo, a former Russian interior minister heading the CIS delegation. Russia frequently accuses the West of using double standards in fighting terrorism. Javier Ruperez, head of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, told reporters at the conference in the Kazakh commercial capital Almaty that the U.N. General Assembly had for years not been able to find a definition for terrorism which would satisfy all sides. \"But my approach is that this lack of definition shouldn\'t prevent us from fighting terrorism,\" he said. Campaigners say that much \"anti-terrorist\" activity in former Soviet states involves trampling over human rights. \"Russia\'s government treats the ongoing conflict in Chechnya as a counter-terrorism campaign,\" New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement. \"While it faces a genuine danger of terrorism, the government has itself committed atrocities such as murders of civilians, forced disappearances, the use of indiscriminate force, incommunicado detention, and torture and ill-treatment of prisoners -- all in the name of the war on terror.\" It called on post-Soviet states to bring their fight against terrorism \"in line with human rights\".The U.N.\'s Ruperez said the two-day meeting was expected to agree on measures to combat the financing of terrorism and illegal trafficking of arms and hazardous materials. (Reuters)