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Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should become an influential organization, which really solves problems of the countries and the regions. The chairman of Committee of Economic Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Askar Nursha, said yesterday during the round table 'Shanghai Discourse: SCO in Modern Civilization', the agency reports.

The Council of Defense Ministers of CIS member countries defined conceptual approaches to development of military cooperation of the Commonwealth states until 2015. The Secretary of the Council, Alexander Sinaysky, informed journalists after the session of the Council of Defense Ministers, the agency reports citing ITAR-TASS.

The main development issue of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expansion of the structure of this organization and the status of the state-observers. Director of regional branch of Institute of the Commonwealths of Independent States (CIS), Alexander Knyazev, informed the agency.