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SCO summit meeting issues joint communique

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-08-17 03:08

BISHKEK -- The 7th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded here Thursday after
issuing a joint communique on multilateral relations and major
international issues of common concern.

Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev,
Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin,
Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov and Uzbekistan President Islam
Karimov attended the one-day meeting.

During the summit, the leaders agreed on further developing all-round
cooperation within the SCO framework and exchanged in an in-depth way
views on the current regional and international issues, the communique
said.

ANTI-TERRORISM

With the cooperation among legislative bodies and supreme courts becoming
ever-important, SCO member states should actively carry out information
exchange in the legislative area, it said.

The regional anti-terror institution has played an active part in
combating terror-related actions, and the function of its council and
executive committee has been further boosted, which in turn helped
elevate the body's status in regional and international anti-terror
cooperation, the leaders added.

Fight against financing terrorism and money laundering should be
intensified, and it is extremely important to implement the SCO's
cooperation deal on combating terrorism, separatism and extremism between
2007 and 2009, the leaders stressed.

REGIONAL STABILITY

At the summit, the SCO leaders emphasized the necessity and urgency of
taking precautionary measures and establishing relevant mechanisms to
tackle threats against regional peace, security and stability.

They agreed to step up efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, drug
trafficking, terrorism. The leaders also discussed the possibility of the
SCO taking bigger part in the Afghanistan affairs, to contribute more to
regional security and stability.

ECONOMIC COOPERATION

The leaders pointed out that the economic cooperation within the SCO
framework is being effectively implemented in various areas, including
energy, transportation, telecommunications and other projects, the joint
communique said.

In the cooperation process, the businessmen committee and bank combo
should play a significant role, and the SCO welcomes the two to sign
various cooperation agreements.

The leaders reiterated the importance of energy cooperation among the SCO
members and hoped they would hold common ground on the issue. The energy
mechanism should be open to all countries and organizations which agree
with the SCO's tenets and tasks, the leaders said.

They also noticed the importance of environment protection and the
reasonable use of natural resources, the communique mentioned.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

The leaders commented positively on the international exchanges that the
SCO has had with other countries and organizations, noting the importance
of further strengthening concrete cooperation with SCO observers in
various fields.

SCO member countries will continue to work for the completion of SCO
legal framework to enable it to explore more international exchanges.

The SCO should deepen concrete cooperation with the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC), and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the basis of current
memos of understanding, the SCO leaders pledged.

They support the SCO to establish relations with other collective
security treaty organizations in order to coordinate moves in protecting
regional and international security, and facing new threats and
challenges together.

Leaders or representatives from the SCO's observer countries -- Mongolia,
Pakistan, Iran and India -- also attended the summit.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Turkmen President Gurbanguly
Berdymukhamedov and United Nations Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pascoe
attended the summit as guests of the host country.

Founded in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, the SCO groups China, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The next SCO summit meeting will be held in 2008 in Tajikistan's capital
of Dushanbe, with Tajikistan holding presidency of the organization.

The ninth SCO summit meeting will be held in 2009 in the Russian city
Jekaterinburg, the joint communique said.

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