President Hu Jintao at SCO summit in Tashkent
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-06-18 14:09

Chinese President Hu Jintao (left) shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tashkent June 17, 2004. The leaders of Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia and Uzbekistan met in the Tashkent to discuss terrorism and increased economic and military cooperation along their common borders. [Reuters] Presidents of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries (L-R) Imomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, Hu Jintao of China, Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, as observing member, pose in Tashkent, June 17, 2004. [Reuters]