On September 23, the Third Meeting of Prime Ministers of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrghyz. This is a group photo of the leaders present at the meeting, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council (L, 3rd), Prime Minister of Kyrgyz Nikolay Tanayev (L, 4th), Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Danial Akhmetov (L, 2nd), Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov (Right, 3rd), Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan Asdulo Gulomof (R, 2nd), Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Oktir Sultanov (R, 1st) and Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Zhang Deguang (L, 1st ).

On September 23, 2004, the Third Meeting of Prime Ministers of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrghyz. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council, Prime Minister of Kyrghyz Nikolay Tanayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Danial Akhmetov, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov, Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan Asdulo Gulomof and Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Oktir Sultanov attended this meeting. Leaders of all the countries held discussions mainly on further developing the multilateral cooperation among the SCO members in security, economy, trade, humanities and environmental protection.

In his speech at the meeting, Wen Jiabao stressed that terrorism, separatism and extremism still remain the biggest threats to this region's peace and stability. The SCO members should further strengthen security cooperation with fighting the "three forces" as the main content on the multilateral and bilateral basis.

He pointed out that with the Tashkent summit held this year as a mark, the SCO has entered a new stage featured by comprehensive cooperation. To adopt down-to-earth procedures and expand and deepen multilateral cooperation so as to bring more tangible benefits to members and seek more welfare for people of various countries in this region is an objective requirement for the development of the SCO, as well as an urgent task faced by us all. The current priority is to push for regional economic cooperation in an all-round way.

Wen Jiabao noted that all the parties need to give priority to deepening economic cooperation while advancing in an orderly way and step by step, keep closer economic links at various levels, create conditions for economic cooperation through various channels, earnestly implement the outline on multilateral economic and trade cooperation, meanwhile strengthen cooperation in the humanities area and promote mutual understanding and friendship among people of the member states.

Leaders of all the countries held that the all-round pragmatic cooperation among members has become the central task of the SCO and there are huge potentials and broad prospects in this respect. All the parties agreed to strengthen coordination and cooperation and earnestly implement multilateral economic and trade cooperation.

The meeting issued a joint communiqué and approved 9 resolutions including the Program on Measures of Implementing the Outline on Multilateral Economic and Trade Cooperation among the SCO Members.

Following the meeting, Premier Wen Jiabao and the leaders of the other five countries attended the opening ceremony of the "website for SCO economic cooperation" and jointly clicked to open this website. Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai hosted the ceremony. This website was first proposed by China and constructed with Chinese funds alone and is the first project of information cooperation in the economic and trade areas among member states. Its objective is to provide information related to economy, trade and investment to member states and promote the economic cooperation process of the SCO region.

The six leaders also met jointly with journalists.