国内英语新闻:SCO security council secretaries meeting to be held in Beijing

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The 13th meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Security Council Secretaries will be held in Beijing on May 21-22, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced Wednesday.

At the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi, Deputy National Security Adviser of India Rajinder Khanna, Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Security Council of Kazakhstan Nurlan Yermekbayev, Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan Damir Sagynbayev, Pakistan's National Security Adviser Naseer Khan Janjua, Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of Tajikistan A.A. Kahharov, Secretary of the Security Council of Uzbekistan Viktor Makhmudov, SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov and Director of the Executive Committee of SCO's Regional Counter-Terrorist Structure Evgeniy Sysoev will attend the meeting.

The meeting will focus on issues including the regional security situation and priority of security cooperation among the SCO members, Lu said.

It is the first SCO security council secretaries meeting since the organization's enlargement. The primary task is to make political and security preparations for the Qingdao summit, Lu said.

During the meeting, Chinese leaders will meet with the heads of the delegations from participating countries, Lu said.