BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The
member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will
stage an anti-terrorism military drill in China from August 24 to 29, a
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Code-named "Peace Mission 2014",the joint drill will take place at
the Zhurihe training base in Inner Mongolia, Yang Yujun told a monthly
press briefing.
Founded in Shanghai in 2001, the SCO groups China, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It has Afghanistan,
India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan as observers and Belarus, Turkey and
Sri Lanka as dialogue partners.
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