SCO RATS session kicks off in Tashkent
13:54, 2 April 2010
TASHKENT. April 2. KAZINFORM /Kurmat Samarkhan/ The XVI session of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has started its work in the capital of Uzbekistan.
Opening the session, RATS Chairman, Deputy Chairman of the National Security Committee Zhanat Zharasov on the behalf of the SCO RATS expressed condolences to the Russian delegation on the blasts happened in Moscow on March 29 and in Kizlyar on March 31. The participants of the session observed a minute of silence for the victims of the terror acts.
Besides, Z.Zharasov introduced newly-appointed Director of the SCO RATS Executive Committee Jenisbek Jumanbekov and his deputies.
SCO Secretary General Muratbek Imanaliyev takes part in the session as well.