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.
(Xinhua News Agency March 29, 2006)
