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| (L-R) Kazakstan President Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev,
Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayevich Akayev, Chinese President Jiang
Zemin, Russia President Vladimir Putin, Tajikistan President Emomali
Sharipovich Rakhmonov, Uzbekistan President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov
pose for a photo during a meeting of the summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization in St. Petersburg of Russia, June 7,
2002. (Xinhua Photo) |
¡¡¡¡June 7, 2002 -- The second SCO summit opened in Russia's second largest
city of St. Petersburg. The one-day meeting closed after the six presidents
signed three documents, the Charter of the SCO, an agreement on anti-terrorism
agency in the region, and the presidents' declaration, to chart the
organization's development goals and to institutionalize the cooperation.