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Anti-terror exercise

BEIJING: Six member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Wednesday agreed to stage a joint anti-terror military exercise in Russia in 2007, according to a joint communique. The joint communique was signed in the wake of the SCO Defence Ministers' meeting. China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. An expert group would be set up to coordinate the preparation and implementation of the plan, the communique said. ``The military exercise is not targeted at a third country,'' Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov told the press following the meeting. The SCO is not a military or political bloc, he said. Regional and international cooperation are required as terrorism, separatism, extremism and cross-border crimes are becoming increasingly prominent, the communique said. — Xinhua

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