Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized that Moscow and Beijing are working effectively together across multiple international platforms, including the United Nations, BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
A meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) defense ministers will take place in China this summer, SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev told Sputnik.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) member states are focusing on the creation of structures to counter security threats, as well as combat international crime and drug trafficking, Nurlan Yermekbayev stressed.
«We are currently working to adapt the organization’s activities to modern realities, including through improving the SCO mechanisms to counter security challenges and threats, expanding cooperation in the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism, as well as illegal drug trafficking, arms smuggling and other types of transnational organized crime. In particular, the parties are discussing the creation of a number of SCO structures to counter security challenges and threats, information security, and combat international organized crime and the drug threat,» Yermekbayev said.
