Special report:   Peace Mission 2007

Chinese troops march during a parade at a military base near Chelyabinsk of Russia Aug. 11, 2007. About 2,000 troops from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members held a joint field exercise in Chelyabinsk on Saturday, starting the second phase of the "Peace Mission 2007" anti-terror drill. (Xinhua Photo/Li Gang) Photo Gallery>>>

Uzbek soldiers march during a parade at a military base in Chelyabinsk of Russia Aug. 11, 2007. (Xinhua Photo/Li Gamg) Photo Gallery>>>

    CHELYABINSK, Russia, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- About 2,000 troops from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members held a joint field exercise here on Saturday, starting the second phase of the "Peace Mission 2007" anti-terror drill.

    Those troops, from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, staged a parade at a military base near Russia's Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk.

    Commanders from the six countries agreed that since the SCO was forged in June 2001, it has abided by the "Shanghai Spirit," which embodies mutual trust and benefit, equality, respect for cultural diversity and a desire for common development.

    The organization has established a new model of defense and security cooperation under the principles of openness, transparency and non-targeting at the third party, they noted.

    In the first phase of the drill, chiefs of staff of the six military forces held strategic negotiations and gave orders in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday.

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