SCO summit to consider membership procedure of new states-pres aide.

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MOSCOW, June 9 (Itar-Tass) -- A Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO) summit, which will be held in Tashkent on June 10-11, will consider
a membership procedure for new states, Russian presidential aide Sergei
Prikhodko told reporters on Wednesday.
"A substantial package of documents has been prepared" for a
forthcoming SCO summit, he noted. "A Political Declaration reflects common
approaches to further development of multifaceted cooperation between the
SCO states. An information statement will be adopted upon the summit
results to set priority tasks and vectors of cooperation for the near
future," Prikhodko said.
High on the agenda of the summit will be a membership procedure for
new states in the SCO. "If the leaders of the SCO states approve this
important political document this will launch the process of resolving
political and legal, organizational and financial issues for a possible
expansion of the organization," Prikhodko noted.
Several countries, including Iran, India and Pakistan have already
declared their striving to accede the SCO. However, the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization has lacked a procedure for its expansion up to
now.
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