Summit of the SCO Council of the Heads of the States has been held in Dushanbe today. Presidents of Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran attended it, Kazinform has learnt from the KZ President's press service, reported Kazinform.
Taking the floor, Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev expressed satisfaction with the course and paces of the organization's development and solution of the set tasks. Along with this, President focused on a number of problems posing risks and threats to security and sustainable development. These are, first of all, international terrorism, extremism, illegal migration and drug-traffic, the President said.
N. Nazarbayev also highlighted importance of trade and economic cooperation, establishment of a unified energy space, development of transport communications, food security ensuring, elaboration of the mechanisms of prevention of disasters and mitigation of their consequences on the SCO territory.
"The SCO is already an important tool of ensuring stability and security on the Eurasian space", N. Nazarbayev noted.