The SCO summit began work. Putin came the last

Astana began the tenth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The meeting will discuss topical issues of global and regional security and ensuring peace and stability, as well as counteracting new challenges and threats, RIA Novosti reports.

The summit is attended by the heads of the State Member States - Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The president of Mongolia is involved as an observer.

The leaders of the SCO member countries gathered in the residence of the President of Kazakhstan - the Akorda Palace. Nazarbayev met guests in the lobby in front of the Golden Hall on the third floor. The first came to the acting President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev, the last - Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nazarbayev shook his hands to his colleagues and escorted them to the Golden Hall.

The President of Kazakhstan uttered the introductory speech in Russian. The translator of the chairman of the PRC Hu Jintao had to give signals to Nazarbayev several times so that he paused and made it possible to transfer what was said to the Chinese.

After a meeting in a narrow composition, leaders will continue the conversation in an expanded composition involving members of delegations. Then the President of Mongolia Nambaryn Enhbayar, who is already an observer of the SCO, as well as representatives of Iran, Pakistan and India, which will be adopted by observers at today's summit, join them.

On April 26, 1996, Russia, China and Central Asian countries: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan - created the "Shanghai Five", which is gathering annually in the capitals of the participating countries. In 2001, Uzbekistan joined them. Soon was renamed the SCO (Shanghai organization of cooperation). The Hartia (Charter) of the SCO - began to operate on September 19, 2003, and the agreement on the regional anti -terrorist structure (RATS) SCO - from November 14. Only at the beginning of 2004 the permanent SCO organs began to work - the secretariat in Beijing and the headquarters of the Rats in Tashkent.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a more original project than the CSTO, within its framework, the former Soviet republics attracted a country from the outside - China, representatives and other far countries were present at the meetings. The initial common enemy is Islamism. Then the profile began to expand.