DUSHANBE, May 20, 2010, Asia-Plus — Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi is departing for Tashkent, Uzbekistan tomorrow to attend a session of the Council of Foreign Ministers from Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that will open there on May 22, according to the Uzbek Embassy in Dushanbe.
The SCO foreign ministers will discuss preparations for the upcoming session of the SCO Council of Heads of State that is scheduled to take place in Tashkent in June this year.
The SCO foreign ministers will have to consider draft documents that will be tabled to the agenda of the SCO summit as well as a draft final declaration of the SCO summit, which will reflect the main approaches of the Organization to the topical international problems such as overcoming effects of the global financial crisis, international currency-financial system reforms, disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as expansion of cooperation in fighting terrorism and drug trafficking, the source said.
According to some experts, the SCO foreign ministers will also discuss the current situation in Kyrgyzstan.
Meanwhile, Russian media quoted the Russian MFA spokesman Andrey Nesterenko as saying that preparations of the SCO member nations for an international conference on Afghanistan that would take place in Kabul in July this year would be also discussed in Tashkent. Nesterenko added that draft regulations on acceptance of new members were also of great importance for the future of the Organization. “Adoption of this document at the SCO summit in Tashkent will give an impulse for formation of the mechanism of expansion of the Organization,” the Russian MFA spokesman said.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization now groups China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
