SCO and United Nations sign Joint Declaration on Cooperation
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the United Nations Organisation signed the Joint Declaration on Cooperation on 5 April 2010 in Tashkent.
The declaration was signed by the SCO Secretary General, Muratbek Imanaliev, and the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon.
The declaration assumes cooperation between the organisations in various areas, including security.
Ban Ki-moon noted that the partnership between the United Nations and SCO would give a new impulse, in particular, to the fight against terrorism, extremism, drugs and transnational crime.
On 18 December 2009 the UN General Assembly unanimously passed the cooperation resolution between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the United Nations Organisation.
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