¡¡¡¡ALMA ATA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The regional anti-terror center of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has played an important role in
maintaining peace and stability in central Asia, a senior Russian security
official said in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, on Tuesday.
¡¡¡¡According to reports reaching here from Tashkent, First Director of
Russia's Federal Security Service Sergei Smirnov told a press conference that
the anti-terror body has worked out a series of drafts on fighting terrorism,
separatism, extremism and illegal weapon smuggling, which are expected to be
adopted at the sixth meeting of the SCO anti-terror commission.
¡¡¡¡Smirnov, who led a Russian delegation in Tashkent for the sixth meeting of
the SCO anti-terror commission, said that deficiencies till exist with the
anti-terror center's work, referring to SCO members' slowness in reaching
consensus on the establishment of an action mechanism to jointly deal with
terror attacks.
¡¡¡¡Some of SCO's multi-lateral legal documents have to wait for along time
before being adopted by the SCO members, Smironov said, urging the SCO members
to move quickly to adopt relevant SCO documents so as to make the body more
efficient.
¡¡¡¡The sixth meeting of the SCO anti-terror commission is scheduled to be held
in Tashkent on March 29, when participants will work out a regional list of most
wanted terrorists and separatists, to ensure that SCO members can coordinate
their manhunt.
¡¡¡¡The SCO, established in 2001 in the Chinese city of Shanghai, groups
Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its regional
anti-terror center came into operation in Tashkent in June 2004.
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