On November 17-18, Astana, Kazakhstan chaired a Meeting of the Commission of Senior Officials in charge of Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Participants discussed draft documents that are expected to be considered at an upcoming SCO Meeting of ministers responsible for foreign economic and trade activities. In addition, they discussed the draft reports of the SCO Secretariat on the implementation of a programme on multilateral trade and economic cooperation and measures for the further development of project activities in the SCO for 2012-2016.
The meeting was attended by SCO Deputy Secretary-General Aziz Nosirov, SCO Business Council Executive Secretary Sergei Kanavsky and SCO Interbank Coordinator Association Ikrom Rakhimov.