On 21 January 2008 the SCO Secretary-General Bolat Nurgaliev held talks at the Secretariat with the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Noeleen Heyzer and her colleagues.
During the meeting Bolat Nurgaliev briefed the UNESCAP officials on the history of SCO’s development, main areas of its activity, the practice of SCO’s interaction with countries in neighboring regions and international organizations.
Noeleen Heyzer expressed thanks for the opportunity to visit the SCO Secretariat, and also spoke of the main goals, tasks and current activity of the UNESCAP.
During the talks the parties reaffirmed their intention to maintain regular contacts between the two organizations. Exchange of opinions took place over issues of establishing interaction between the SCO and UNESCAP in such fields like economy and trade, transportation and communications, energy, environmental protection and sustainable development, use of information technology.
At present the SCO and UNESCAP, with the assistance of the Asia Development Bank, are actively cooperating in drawing up the draft Agreement among the governments of the SCO member states on road transportation facilitation.
Upon conclusion of the talks Bolat Nurgaliev and Noeleen Heyzer signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Secretariat of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, which envisages concrete forms and areas of mutually beneficial cooperation, including expert-level consultations designed to review jointly conducted activities and discuss ways of further promotion of links, as well as sharing of information of mutual interest to both parties.
By People's Daily Online
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