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Shanghai members launch first anti-terrorism exercise
Beijing, Aug 06: China, Russia and four other Central Asian states today kicked off their first joint anti-terrorism exercises in Kazakhstan`s border city of Ucharal as part of the effort to boost cooperation among the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Beijing, Aug 06: China, Russia and four other Central Asian states today kicked off their first joint anti-terrorism exercises in Kazakhstan's border city of Ucharal as part of the effort to boost cooperation among the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Set up in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, the SCO groups
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan.
While China's official Xinhua news agency which reported the exercise, did not provide details and duration of the event.
The SCO, a brainchild of Beijing, had been originally intended to band together Russia, China and Central Asian Nations in order to contest America's growing influence in central Eurasia and also jointly tackle the `three forces' such threats as terrorism, separatism, extremism as well as drug trafficking. Analysts say that China views SCO as a vehicle to consolidate its position and raise its clout in Central Eurasia without antagonising Russia, the traditional power which has long dominated the region.
Beijing is also keen to check Washington's growing influence, which has been on the raise in the wake of September 11, 2001. Further, Beijing fears that `east Turkistan' separatist forces are regrouping in its restive northwestern province of Xinjiang as well as in neighbouring Central Asian provinces aimed to separate Xinjiang from rest of China.
Bureau Report
While China's official Xinhua news agency which reported the exercise, did not provide details and duration of the event.
The SCO, a brainchild of Beijing, had been originally intended to band together Russia, China and Central Asian Nations in order to contest America's growing influence in central Eurasia and also jointly tackle the `three forces' such threats as terrorism, separatism, extremism as well as drug trafficking. Analysts say that China views SCO as a vehicle to consolidate its position and raise its clout in Central Eurasia without antagonising Russia, the traditional power which has long dominated the region.
Beijing is also keen to check Washington's growing influence, which has been on the raise in the wake of September 11, 2001. Further, Beijing fears that `east Turkistan' separatist forces are regrouping in its restive northwestern province of Xinjiang as well as in neighbouring Central Asian provinces aimed to separate Xinjiang from rest of China.
Bureau Report