Shanghai Convention on fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism

of June 15, 2001

The Republic of Kazakhstan, People's Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan (further - the Parties),

being guided by the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the UN first of all concerning maintenance of international peace and safety, development between the states of friendship and cooperation;

realizing that terrorism, separatism and extremism pose threat to international peace and safety, development of friendship between the states, and also to implementation of basic rights and human freedoms;

recognizing that the specified phenomena seriously threaten territorial integrity and safety of the Parties, and also their political, economic and social stability;

being guided by the principles of the Almaty joint statement of July 3, 1998, the Bishkek declaration of August 25, 1999, the Dushanbe declaration of July 5, 2000 and the Declaration on creation of Shanghai Cooperation Organization of June 15, 2001;

being firmly convinced that terrorism, separatism and extremism as they are determined in this Convention, regardless of their motives, cannot be justified under no circumstances, and persons guilty of making of such acts shall be made responsible according to the law;

being convinced that common efforts of the Parties within this Convention are effective form of fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

1. For the purposes of this Convention the terms used in it mean:

1) "terrorism":

a) any act recognized as crime in one of the agreements listed in Appendix to this Convention (daleeprilozheniye) and as it is determined in this agreement;

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