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Putin says SCO seeks new forms of cooperation
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-21 09:55
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is seeking new forms of
cooperation, in order that "our cooperation will generate the most
positive impacts on the livelihood of the 3 billion people in the world
who are covered by the SCO," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on
Saturday.
In an exclusive interview with Xinhua prior to his visit to China on
March 21-22, Putin said the SCO has truly become an organization of
regional integration, with regional cooperation ineconomic and social
fields being steadily strengthened.
"The SCO will celebrate its fifth anniversary on June 15 ... The SCO
doesn't have a long history, but its members have not onlycompleted the
tasks set at the founding of the organization, but also surpassed the
initial goals," he said.
Apart from the organization's founding members of China,
Russia,Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the SCO has
also taken economically and socially important countries like India,
Iran, Pakistan and Mongolia as observers, the president said.
The organization continues to work toward safeguarding regionalstability
and security, combating separatism, extremism and terrorism, he said.
The SCO summit scheduled for June in Shanghai will not only reemphasize
the founding principles of the group, but also carry forward the spirit
to demonstrate the member states' willingness to mapping out new ways of
international cooperation, he said
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