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Prime ministers of the Member States of
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) in Tashkent Friday
meet the press after signing a joint communique.(Xinhua
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TASHKENT, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Prime ministers of the
Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) signed here Friday
a joint communique, vowing to strengthen cooperation in customs, agriculture,
culture and education.
The heads of government welcomed the signing of the
agreement on customs cooperation between the SCO member states and instructed
customs working groups to continue to create conditions for unified customs
clearance, the completion of administrative and transport procedures and mutual
recognition of customs documents, said the communique.
They maintained that member states should activate
and develop agricultural cooperation and tap the potentials of the Business
Council of the SCO during the process, the communique added.
On the culture field, the leaders noted that the
signing of the inter-governmental agreement on cultural cooperation between the
SCO member states is of great significance and instructed the SCO secretariat
and culture expert groups to put forward concrete proposals on implementing the
agreement.
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Prime ministers of the Member States of
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) sign in
Tashkent Friday a joint communique, vowing to strengthen cooperation
in customs, agriculture, culture and education.(Xinhua Photo)
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They also instructed education expert groups to
accelerate consultations on measures for implementing the inter-governmental
agreement on educational cooperation between the SCO member states signed on
June 15, 2006.
They welcomed the start of health cooperation and
instructed the secretariat of the SCO and relevant experts to work out plans to
help set priorities for cooperation in this field, the communique said.
The prime ministers speak highly of the just
initiated tourism cooperation between the SCO member states, maintaining that
consultations on relevant plans should be completed, the communique noted.
The heads of government decided to hold the next
meeting of Prime Ministers of the Member States of the SCO in Kazakhstan in
2008.
The six leaders attending the meeting are Uzbek Prime
Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Kyrgyz Acting Prime
Minister Almaz Atambayev, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, Tajik Prime
Minister Akil Akilov and Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov.
Representatives from the four SCO observer nations,
Pakistan, Mongolia, Iran and India, also attended the meeting.
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