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Next meeting of Ministers of Defense of SCO member states held in Dushanbe

The next meeting of the Ministers of Defense of the SCO member states was held in Dushanbe, the agency reports referring to news agency Asia-Plus.

Dushanbe. May 16. Kazakhstan Today - The next meeting of the Ministers of Defense of the SCO member states was held in Dushanbe, the agency reports referring to news agency Asia-Plus.

The Ministers of Defense of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Chinese National Republic gathered in the Tajikistan capital. Russia at session of the Ministerial Council of Defense Ministries of SCO member countries was represented by the first Vice Minister, and Uzbekistan - Vice Minister.

Following the results of the meeting, according to the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan, cooperation agreements between defense departments of SCO member states and joint communiqu? of ministers were signed. The agreement of such kind has been signed for the first time during existence of the organization and the meeting has been the first large events within SCO during chairmanship of the Republic of Tajikistan in this organization since last year's summit in Bishkek.

As it was informed earlier, China, Kazakhstan, Kygyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are SCO member states.

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