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The concept of cooperation of state members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism

It is approved by the decision of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Chinese President Hu Jintao, the acting president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev, the President of Tajikistan Emomalii Rakhmonov, the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on July 5, 2005 in Astana

State members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (further - gosudarstvachlena of SCO), accept the Concept of cooperation of state members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism (further - the Concept) which is basis for development of the approved strategy and system of measures to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism as they are determined in the Shanghai convention on fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism of June 15, 2001, within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (further - SCO). This Concept determines main objectives, tasks, the principles, the directions and forms of cooperation of state members of SCO in fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism, and also the mechanism of its realization.

I. General provisions

State members of SCO recognize that terrorism, separatism and extremism: pose threat to international peace and safety, interfere with development of friendship between the states, and also to implementation of basic rights and human freedoms;

threaten territorial integrity and safety of gosudarstvchlen of SCO, and also their political, economic and social stability;

cannot be justified under no circumstances, irrespective of their motives, and persons and the organizations guilty of making of such acts shall be made responsible.

State members of SCO are convinced that the main center of regulation of the international relations and development of cooperation in the field of ensuring the international security is the United Nations.

State members of SCO confirm the commitment to the purposes and the principles of Articles of organization of the United Nations, to other conventional principles and rules of international law concerning maintenance of international peace, safety and development good-neighbourhood and friendship and also cooperation between the states.

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