MOSCOW. May 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member-states will meet in Moscow to discuss maintenance of security in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, and interaction in combating international terrorism, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
The session will take place at the CIS military cooperation coordination headquarters on Wednesday and Thursday. It will involve defense ministers from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The ministers are also expected to discuss military and military-technical cooperation.
"Among the issues prepared for the discussion are possible ways of establishing a zone free from nuclear weapons in Central Asia," the spokesman said.
According to him, participants in the session will discuss development of military cooperation between their countries and modernization of international and legal basics of the organization.
After the session, the defense ministers are supposed to sign a joint communique that is to cover all issues they have discussed.
Several bilateral meetings including the one between the Russian and Chinese defense ministers will take place in the framework of the session.