By Ni Hongmei
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Deepening cooperation between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the United Nations is of great significance in countering global terrorism and tackling challenges and threats, SCO chief said on Tuesday.
"Fighting global terrorism is a work without an end," SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov told Xinhua in an exclusive interview at the UN headquarters after attending a high-level special event on "the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Jointly Countering Challenges and Threats" .
It is of great significance to deepen cooperative relations between the Regional Anti-terrorism Structure of the SCO and related anti-terrorism agencies within the UN system, he said, noting that "it is also the direction of our future work."
"We believe we can achieve success if we combine both of our strength and make joint efforts," he said.
Addressing the high-level event, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that "the United Nations looks forward to strengthening our ties in facing common challenges, advancing preventive diplomacy and building a region of peace, development and human rights for all."
The SCO, established in 2001, is a regional political, economic and security organization that groups China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as full members.
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