Russia hails SCO as tool for solving world problems

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Russia hails SCO as tool for solving world problems

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said on Friday in Moscow that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an effective tool of multilateral interaction for solving world problems.

Russia "is convinced that SCO will cope with its tasks and willassert itself as an effective instrument of multilateral interaction of our states in solving problems of both the regionaland international scales," Yakovenko said in Russia's Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made a stop on his way back to Moscow from Beijing.

SCO, which groups China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, was formally established in June 2001 and grew out of efforts in the 1990s to strengthen confidence-building measures in the Central Asian border regions and fight regional terrorism, religious extremism and separatism.

"SCO will become one of the bulwarks for forming a safe, fair and democratic world order," Yakovenko said in an interview with Itar-Tass news agency.

"This opinion is shared in the whole world," he noted, adding that the solemn ceremony of opening the SCO Secretariat in Beijingwas "a testimony to that."

The SCO permanent secretariat was established in Beijing on Thursday and SCO foreign ministers attended the inauguration ceremony.

Yakovenko also expressed satisfaction with the results of the SCO foreign ministers' meeting Thursday and the talks between Ivanov and his Chinese counterpart, Li Zhaoxing.

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