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SCO defence ministers approve 2012-2013 cooperation plan
ASTANA, March 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Defence ministers of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation /SOC/ adopted a plan for cooperation over
2012-2013, Kazakhstan's Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov said
following their meeting on Thursday.
"We have discussed some important issues, exchanged views on the
current problems in the international and regional security, signed a
communique and a plan for cooperation over 2012-2013," he told reporters.
"We are truly confident that this close cooperation and interaction will let us strengthen security and stability both in the region and in the world."
"The purpose of all the efforts is to raise trust in security matters and in SOC's opportunities in fighting terrorism."
China's Defence Minister Liang Guanglie said that the documents the sides had signed over the meeting follow the Shanghai agreements and they are based on the major principle of mutual respect, mutual benefit, equality, ongoing consultations and on the aspiration for further development.
"We /the SOC member countries/ will apply every effort to raise our cooperation to a new level," he said.
Defence ministers confirmed the high level of mutual understanding, gained over the decade of the SOC's activities. Deepening of communications between defence ministries complies with the fundamental principle of the SOC's openness and its non-aiming against any state or international union. Once again participants in the meeting highlighted the fact that the purpose of the cooperation is to strengthen measures of trust in the military sphere, as well as strengthening stability, safety and peace in the region, improvement of counter-terrorist opportunities.
"Providing security in the territory of the organisation is a priority of the organisation's activities," the SOC's Secretary General Murtabek Imanaliyev said following the meeting. "Today's discussion, I believe, is another proof of further improvement of cooperation between the military of the SOC countries."
The meeting was organised in the year of the organisation's tenth
jubilee, which is "significant and symbolic," he added.
The SOC jubilee summit is due on June 15, 2011 in Astana.
Cooperation Organisation /SOC/ adopted a plan for cooperation over
2012-2013, Kazakhstan's Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov said
following their meeting on Thursday.
"We have discussed some important issues, exchanged views on the
current problems in the international and regional security, signed a
communique and a plan for cooperation over 2012-2013," he told reporters.
"We are truly confident that this close cooperation and interaction will let us strengthen security and stability both in the region and in the world."
"The purpose of all the efforts is to raise trust in security matters and in SOC's opportunities in fighting terrorism."
China's Defence Minister Liang Guanglie said that the documents the sides had signed over the meeting follow the Shanghai agreements and they are based on the major principle of mutual respect, mutual benefit, equality, ongoing consultations and on the aspiration for further development.
"We /the SOC member countries/ will apply every effort to raise our cooperation to a new level," he said.
Defence ministers confirmed the high level of mutual understanding, gained over the decade of the SOC's activities. Deepening of communications between defence ministries complies with the fundamental principle of the SOC's openness and its non-aiming against any state or international union. Once again participants in the meeting highlighted the fact that the purpose of the cooperation is to strengthen measures of trust in the military sphere, as well as strengthening stability, safety and peace in the region, improvement of counter-terrorist opportunities.
"Providing security in the territory of the organisation is a priority of the organisation's activities," the SOC's Secretary General Murtabek Imanaliyev said following the meeting. "Today's discussion, I believe, is another proof of further improvement of cooperation between the military of the SOC countries."
The meeting was organised in the year of the organisation's tenth
jubilee, which is "significant and symbolic," he added.
The SOC jubilee summit is due on June 15, 2011 in Astana.
