FM Says SCO Meeting in Moscow of Great Importance

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FM Says SCO Meeting in Moscow of Great Importance

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The meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held on April 26 in Moscow will be of great importance in laying out the organization's future, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday.

She said the upcoming meeting, the second of its kind, will be aimed at preparing for the SCO summit meeting in June this year. Foreign ministers of the six member countries will have broad and deep discussions on the current international and regional situation and the development of the organization.

SCO to enact a charter

Zhang said that in accordance with the agreement reached by the leaders of the member states, the SCO will enact a charter, which will be an important legal document.

The charter will specify the purpose, cooperation guidelines, organizing structure and operation mechanism of the SCO, said Zhang, adding that state members are now stepping up consultations and preparations for the charter.

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization Aims to Create New World Order

China and its five northern neighbors announced in Shanghai on June 15, 2001 to set up a regional cooperation organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to ensure regional security in central Asia as well as create a new political and economic order in the world.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed the declaration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

The declaration said that the organization will try all out to safeguard the regional security and cooperate with each other in fighting against terrorism, separatism and extremism.

Meanwhile, the organization pledged to allow other countries, which must meet its requirements, to join in.

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