Yekaterinburg hosts session of Council of leaders of CIS member states

Almaty. June 16. Kazakhstan Today - Yekaterinburg hosts the session of the Council of the leaders of the CIS member states, the agency reports citing the message of the official site of the president of Russia.

According to RIA Novosti, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, suggested the participants of the SCO summit discussing the questions of regional security and struggle against the consequences of the world financial and economic crisis.

As informed earlier, the participants of the SCO summit would sign the Yekaterinburg Declaration and the SCO Convention Against Terrorism.

According to Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Sergey Prihodko, the leaders of the states will discuss the "questions of expansion of international contacts and the issues of development of regional and world politics and economy."

"The summit participants will discuss, including in the context of global financial crisis and minimization of its consequences, social and economic cooperation, first of all, in such areas as energy, transport, commerce, modern information technology, and others," he informed.

"Yekaterinburg Declaration will be the main political document that will be signed by the leaders of the SCO states. In gives assessment of the modern international situation, irreversibility of the tendency towards real multi polarity and increase of importance of regional aspect in resolution of global issues," S. Prihodko informed.

SCO is a permanently operating regional international organization founded in June, 2001 by the leaders of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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