BEIJING: Defence officers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will maintain a two-day assembly in Qingdao metropolis of China later this month to debate future safety cooperation between the member states, an official mentioned on Friday. “The primary assembly of worldwide navy cooperation organs of the SCO member states for 2025 can be held in Qingdao metropolis of east China’s Shandong province from March 26 to 27,” Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, the spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Nationwide Defence (MND), instructed a media briefing right here.
He mentioned the representatives from defence ministries of the Shanghai SCO member states and its secretariat will attend the assembly and alternate views on future defence and safety cooperation. SCO contains ten member states — China, Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus.
SCO has a robust counter terrorism mechanism known as Regional Anti-Terrorism Construction (RATS). China is because of maintain this 12 months’s SCO leaders’ summit. Chinese language International Minister Wang Yi instructed the media right here on March 7 that the summit can be held within the Chinese language port metropolis of Tianjin in autumn this 12 months.
Because the rotating president, China is placing collectively greater than 100 occasions in political, safety, financial and people-to-people fields beneath the slogan of “Upholding the Shanghai Spirit: SCO on the Transfer”, Wang mentioned. “We’ll take actual actions to hold ahead the Shanghai spirit and promote SCO growth”, he mentioned.
