The countries that make up the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are doing a lot to combat terrorism and extremism and drug trafficking, said Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
"SCO member states make a constructive contribution to international anti-terrorist cooperation. Our countries are actively putting forward useful initiatives aimed at ensuring information security, countering extremism and transnational organized crime, and combating drug trafficking," he said Wednesday at a meeting with his colleagues in the association.
Patrushev recalled that it is now planned to improve the SCO's activities, as well as to strengthen the institution of dialogic partnership with states that share the organization's goals and principles, as decided by the heads of state.
"An important task in this context is to improve the mechanisms of counteraction to security challenges and threats in the SCO," he pointed out.
According to him, the SCO is growing and strengthening despite pressure from the West. "Despite enormous pressure from third countries interested in maintaining Western global hegemony, the SCO's potential continues to strengthen, it is steadily becoming one of the centers of international development, and the number of countries seeking to participate in the organization is constantly growing," he said.
Patrushev said the organization is "incrementally augmenting its weight and authority in international affairs".
The secretary of the Russian Security Council thanked his colleagues for attending the meeting. "I am confident that it will make a significant contribution to the joint work to deepen mutual understanding and ensure the security of our states, which is especially important against the backdrop of the events taking place in the world," he said.
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Based on materials from TASS