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SCO Defence Ministers Approve 2012-2013 Cooperation Plan
Defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation /SOC/ adopted a plan for cooperation over 2012-2013, Kazakhstans 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 communiqu· 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 SOCs opportunities in fighting terrorism.
Chinas 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 SOCs activities. Deepening of communications between defence ministries complies with the fundamental principle of the SOCs 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 organisations activities, the SOCs Secretary General Murtabek Imanaliyev said following the meeting. Todays 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 organisations tenth jubilee, which is significant and symbolic, he added.
The SOC jubilee summit is due on June 15, 2011 in Astana.
ITAR-TASS
Defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation /SOC/ adopted a plan for cooperation over 2012-2013, Kazakhstans 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 communiqu· 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 SOCs opportunities in fighting terrorism.
Chinas 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 SOCs activities. Deepening of communications between defence ministries complies with the fundamental principle of the SOCs 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 organisations activities, the SOCs Secretary General Murtabek Imanaliyev said following the meeting. Todays 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 organisations tenth jubilee, which is significant and symbolic, he added.
The SOC jubilee summit is due on June 15, 2011 in Astana.
ITAR-TASS
