DUSHANBE, March 13, Asia-Plus  -- A meeting of experts from defense ministries of member nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Dushanbe on March 12, Asia-plus ahs learned at the international cooperation directorate within the Tajik Ministry of Defense (MoD) .  

The meeting participants considered a draft agenda of a meeting of the SCO defense ministers, which is scheduled to beheld in Dushanbe in mid-May this year.  

Issues related to terms of carrying out joint events aimed at raising defense potentials of the Organization as well as adequate actions of the SCO defense ministries to address possible terrorist and other threats to member nations of the SCO have been tabled to the forthcoming meeting’s agenda, the source at a MoD said.  

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental international organization founded in Shanghai on June 15 2001 by six countries: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.  Its member states cover an area of over 30 million km2, or about three fifths of Eurasia, with a population of 1.455 billion, about a quarter of the world''s total. 

The main goals of the SCO are strengthening mutual confidence and good-neighborly relations among the member countries; promoting their effective cooperation in politics, trade and economy, science and technology, culture as well as education, energy, transportation, tourism, environmental protection and other fields; making joint efforts to maintain and ensure peace, security and stability in the region, to move towards the establishment of a new, democratic, just and rational political and economic international order.