President of Uzbekistan meets secretaries of security councils of SCO member states
| 2010-4-23 |
Islam Karimov, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, met with the secretaries of security councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states, SCO Secretary-General Muratbek Imanaliyev and Director of the SCO RCTS Executive Committee Dzhenisbek Dzhumanbekov in Oqsaroy on 23 April 2010, the President’s press service said.
The head of state expressed satisfaction with the high level of interaction achieved in such areas of SCO activity as elaboration and implementation of complex multilateral actions to provide for regional security. The role of the national security councils of this reputable international organisation’s member countries is invaluable as regards joint coordination of those measures.
Whilst emphasising the burgeoning credibility and significance of SCO efforts in the current circumstances, President Islam Karimov stressed its growing position in addressing regional and global security issues, combating international terrorism, separatism and extremism, drug trafficking and other challenges and threats in the strategically important Central Asian region.
Initiated by the leadership of Uzbekistan back in 2004, the mechanism of meetings by secretaries of security councils of the SCO member nations has become a vital mechanism in working out concerted measures and efforts to ensure peace and stability in the regional context.
As part of the activities related to the upcoming SCO summit due this June in Tashkent, prospects for raising the effectiveness of decision-making mechanisms by various bodies of the Organisation were discussed. The parties acknowledged particular significance of a constructive exchange of views on improving cooperation among the member states in many essential areas of regional development, especially in the context of interaction with the relevant UN counter-terrorism unit on the basis of the Joint Declaration on Cooperation between the SCO and UN Secretariats signed 5 April 2010 in Tashkent.
During the meeting in Oqsaroy the guests expressed sincere gratitude to the President for the warm welcome, noting in particular the special significance of the efforts by Uzbekistan’s leadership to revitalize the SCO activity in various spheres of regional cooperation in the course of Uzbekistan’s presidency of the SCO.
During the meeting the parties also discussed the ongoing preparations for the SCO Heads of State Council meeting and other topics of regional significance.
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