SCO summit to strengthen its international role

[Joanne98]

The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will help reinforce its role in the international arena, according to Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon. The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has just arrived in the capital Dushanbe to participate in the talks.

The forum was created seven years ago, when Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan agreed to enforce stability in the Central Asian region.

Energy, transportation, security in the SCO zone and the fight against terrorism and drugs trafficking are the focus of the summit’s agenda, according to a source in the Kremlin.

There will be round-table talks between the leaders, and broader meetings between delegations after which a number of documents are expected to be agreed upon and signed.

The Russian president is expected to hold several bilateral meetings with the leaders of the SCO member states as well as of the states which have observer status in the organisation – India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan.

The chair of the SCO summit is a rotational one and the following year it will pass to Russia.

Meanwhile, the question of what stance the Asian states will take on the status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could also feature in the talks.

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They're forming a "security block" to "enforce stability in the Central Asian region"... Now this could get interesting. I bet Russia is going to dump cash on these countries. "You're either with us or against us"
Bad news for Bushco.