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Putin arrives in Shanghai for SCO summit
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-06-14 16:37 SHANGHAI -- Russian President
Vladimir Putin arrived in Shanghai Wednesday afternoon for the summit meeting of
a regional organization named after China's largest city.
He will attend
the summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an intergovernmental
organization that comprises China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan. The SCO was established in Shanghai in 2001.
This is
Putin's second visit to China in six months.
During his two-day state
visit to China in March, Putin signed a joint statement with his Chinese
counterpart Hu Jintao and attended the opening ceremony of Year of Russia in
China.
In an article published on the eve of the summit, Putin hailed
the SCO as "having introduced new patterns of successful international
cooperation" and "an important factor for maintaining stability in Eurasia."
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Tajik President Emomali
Rakhmonov, Uzbek President Islam Karimov and Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
have arrived in Shanghai since Tuesday evening.
According to an
agreement of SCO member countries, the summit will also see participants from
the four observer countries as well as the countries and international
organizations which have established cooperative relations with the SCO.
In 2004 and 2005, the SCO accepted Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran as
observers. It has also set up official links with many international
organizations including the United Nations and the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations.
On the sidelines of the summit, Chinese President Hu
Jintao will meet with the presidents of SCO members and participants from
observer countries.
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