The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin on Thursday will arrive at the summit of the Shanghai cooperation Organization, which will be held in Dushanbe on September 11-12.
Meeting of the leaders of the six may be the last in this format: it is Planned that in the capital of Tajikistan will be taken fresh admission in the Organization. This will provide an opportunity at the next summit, which will be held in Russia in 2015, to be included with the SCO India and Pakistan, reports RIA " Novosti ". During the two-day meeting, the participants, observers and partners of the SCO will also discuss the situation in Ukraine and Afghanistan. It is expected that the position of the Organization will be reflected in the final documents. In addition, the head of the Russian Federation shall take the opportunity to discuss on the sidelines of the summit with their counterparts from China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia issues of bilateral relations and topical international and regional problems. In the Shanghai cooperation Organization, formed in 2001, includes six countries - Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The observer States of the SCO are Afghanistan, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan. Belarus, Turkey and Sri Lanka have the status of dialogue partners. The main goals of the SCO are strengthening mutual trust and good-neighborly relations between the countries

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