Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Russia’s Medvedev To Hold Talks

[Purveyor]

TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Dushanbe which begins on Thursday.

Ahmadinejad and Medvedev will talk about strengthening relations between the two countries and discuss regional and international issues, the Fars News Agency reported.

This is the first time that two presidents meet each other.

The SCO’s eighth conference will be held on August 28 and 29. It will be attended by the presidents of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as its permanent members, the heads of state from Iran, India, Mongolia plus Pakistani foreign minister as observers, and the leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan as guests.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental international organization founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001 by six countries, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its member states cover an area of about three fifths of Eurasia, with a population of 1.455 billion. Its working languages are Chinese and Russian.

The organization’s main objectives include strengthening confidence among the members, increasing political, scientific, cultural, and educational as well as energy, transportation, tourism cooperation between the member states

Tehran Times: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=176163

[SpiralHawk]

1. Meanwhile, back at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford...

Commander AWOL & republicon cronies take decisive action

[bushmeister0]

2. If I was Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, I'd be really nervous, right now.

After what just happened to Georgia, in the middle of the BTC pipeline, I'd be thinking about what might happen to me sitting at the begining of it. That probably has something to do with Cheney starting out his trip to the region in Azerbaijan.

James Baker III and the wrecking crew at the American-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce have a lot money wrappeed up in the Aliyev portfolio, they've got to keep him from going off the reservation.

Cheney can't offer any type of military aid, naturally, but he can use his patented head drop move on him. That worked to get Musharrraf in line.



http://www.parstimes.com/caspian/

[spanone]

3. hey, if we don't talk to them, someone else will....