Last updated at: (Beijing Time)
Friday, June 07, 2002
Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Begins
in St.Petersburg
Presidents of China, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
gathered Friday in St. Petersburg for the second summit
of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and are
expected to adopt three key documents that chart the
future course of development of the SCO.
Presidents of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan gathered Friday in St.
Petersburg for the second summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO), and are expected to adopt three key documents
that chart the future course of development of the SCO.
The leaders will review the development of the
SCO since its establishment in Shanghai a year ago. They
will also exchange views on outstanding international
and regional issues and sign three documents, namely the
SCO Charter, an agreement on the establishment of a
regional anti-terrorism agency, and a declaration of the
SCO leaders.
The summit meeting is expected to
further strengthen unity and coordination of the SCO,
institutionalize it, promote cooperation to a wider
sphere, and raise its international status, a spokesman
of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
earlier.
The spokesman said the establishment of
SCO was a strategic choice of leaders of the six
countries, for strengthening regional good-neighborly
cooperative relations and maintaining peace, stability
and development in the region and the world at large.
A series of ministerial meetings were held in
the past 12 months in preparation for the summit, which
included meetings of defense ministers, trade ministers
and cultural ministers of the six countries.