The East African Community (EAC) bloc made up by Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda is to set up a protocol on security to fight global terrorists including Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents, the Chairperson of the EAC Council of Ministers told a press conference on Monday. Burundi's EAC Affairs Minister, also Chairperson of the EAC Council of Ministers, Hafsa Mossi, said in a press conference in the Burundian capital Bujumbura that the protocol will be discussed in the next EAC Heads of State extraordinary summit. 'We will very soon have a protocol on security issue and the protocol will be discussed during the forthcoming extraordinary summit of EAC Heads of State due in April 2011,' the chairperson said. She said the presidents of the EAC partner states had slightly discussed the protocol on security during the EAC Heads of State's Summit held in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha on Dec. 4, 2010. Minister Hafsa Mossi said the Common Foreign Policy Protocol into force in the five EAC partner states also takes care of security issues. 'There is a commitment in the five EAC partner states according to which whenever you join the Community, you adhere to its rules and procedures. There are some kinds of agreements between states to protect each other from anything that could happen in any of the five partner states,' Hafsa Mossi said. The Somali al Shabaab insurgents with links to al Qaeda have been eying Burundi and Uganda -- two contributor countries of troops serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Al Shabaab has made fresh threats of attacks during the festive season of Christmas and New Year in the two countries. The al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility in bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital Kampala in July 2010 during which at least 76 people where killed. 