Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Regional Counter Terrorism Structure

Wishing to promote cooperation between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,

Mongolia and India have observer status with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

59 48. Observer status for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the General Assembly

Agenda item 151  Observer status for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the General Assembly

Tajikistan has consistently advocated the intensification and the consolidation of regional integration, including through such machinery as the Central Asian Cooperation Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Eurasian Cooperation Organization.

Welcoming, in this regard, recent initiatives to reinforce regional cooperation, including the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Afghanistan Contact Group,

Regional cooperation was important for development, and Tajikistan supported more active and stronger regional cooperation in Central Asia, inter alia through the Organization of Central Asian Cooperation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Eurasian Economic Community.

Kyrgyzstan supports the participation in the work of the committee of such organizations as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Euro Asian Economic Union and the Central Asian Cooperation Organization.

It is also important to note that broad measures against terrorism are being taken within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Central Asian Cooperation Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

One tool of this ambition is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), under which the Sino Russian exercises took place.

Mr. Zhang Deguang (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) (spoke in Chinese) I am grateful for this opportunity to address the Assembly.

This is the first time that a representative of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has spoken from this rostrum.

Mr. Zhang Yishan (China) (spoke in Chinese) I make this statement on behalf of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Comprehensive cooperation within the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the European Asian Economic Council is important for the CSTO States members.

Summit Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization for the establishment of the Regional Anti Terrorism Structure, Tashkent, 17 June 2004

China is also a founder and member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), alongside Russia and the Central Asian republics.

The RCTS was established in accordance with the decisions of the SCO member States set forth, in particular, in the Charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of 7 June 2002 and the agreement among the States members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization governing the Regional Counter Terrorism Structure.

Compared to the 60 year history of the United Nations, the history of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has just begun.

They are partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. China is the world s largest energy consumer, while Russia is the biggest energy provider.

When Russia appealed for support of its Georgia policy to its fellow members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China and others refused.

The Co Chairperson (Sweden) The Assembly will now hear an address by Mr. Zhang Deguang, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Kazakhstan already plays a key role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a group that comprises Central Asian countries, along with Russia and China.

Agreement between States members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on a regional counter terrorist structure (Federal Act No. 7 F3 of 5 March 2004)

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization represents an area which has a population of nearly 1.5 billion people and covers three fifths of the Eurasian continent.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization supports the provision of extensive international humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and has made important contributions to that end.

1. Decides to invite the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to participate in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly in the capacity of observer

Asserting itself as a major power outside the Western realm, Russia has boosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes China and most Central Asian countries.

In the middle and long terms, it will be important to include Afghanistan as an observer country in the activities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Mr. Chulkov (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian) The Russian delegation supports the statement by the representative of Kazakhstan on behalf of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

In addition, specific steps to create a regulatory framework were being taken within regional organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, of which Kazakhstan was a member.

For several years, representatives of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), whose dominant members are China and Russia, have identified narcotics trafficking from Afghanistan as a major regional insecurity.

Four years ago in the city of Shanghai, the leaders of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan announced the birth of this new organization of regional cooperation.

Let me also express my gratitude to the delegation of Kazakhstan for the statement it made on behalf of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization a statement that we endorse.

In 2005, at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Vladimir Putin pressed for the final declaration to include a demand for withdrawal of American bases from Central Asia.

In particular, in addition to carrying out other meaningful activities, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have set up, and quite successfully operated, specialized antiterrorist centres.

Kazakhstan is a member of the United Nations, Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe (which it chaired in 2010), North Atlantic Cooperation Council, Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and NATO's Partnership for Peace program.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which promotes cooperation on, inter alia, security and economic issues among China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, established two permanent bodies in 2004 a secretariat in Beijing and a regional anti terrorism centre in Tashkent.

The Green Gang () was a Chinese criminal organization that operated in Shanghai in the early 20th century.

THE HAGUE The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brings together almost half the world s population, several members own nuclear weapons, many are big energy suppliers, and it includes some of the world s fastest growing economies.

Both powers have sought to use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization a regional grouping that includes Russia, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan as a vehicle to pressure the US to withdraw its military forces from the region.

Likewise, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which just concluded its annual meeting, is in China s eyes a tool of regional policy that helps strengthen China s influence and control over Central Asia s natural resources at the expense of Russia.

During Vladimir Putin s presidency, Chinese and Russian troops engaged in joint military maneuvers, and the two countries became dominant powers in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which, to some Western observers, looked like an effort to counterbalance NATO.

ESCAP continued to support the draft agreement on facilitation of cross border transport of goods and people in the Greater Mekong Subregion and the draft intergovernmental agreement of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on facilitation of international road transport.