President Rouhani:

Iran Ready for Anti-Terrorism Cooperation with SCO

Rasa - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined his country's willingness to cooperate with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to fight against terrorist groups and drug trafficking.

News ID: 438180

Date: 10 June 2018 - 22:52

RNA - "Terrorism, separatism and extremism have in recent years affected different parts of the world, specially the regions around us, including the Central Asia and West Asia," President Rouhani said, addressing the SCO summit in China on Sunday.

He warned that the terrorists use the intelligence vacuum existing among the regional states to recruit new members, stressing the need for the countries in the region to increase exchange of intelligence to weaken the terrorist networks.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has faced with the ominous phenomenon of terrorism in the past decades in and around the country and has valuable experiences in controlling and weakening this stream and our cooperation with the Iraqi and Syrian governments against ISIL is an instance," Rouhani said.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to render the necessary cooperation with the SCO in campaign against terrorism, extremism, separatism and drugs," he underscored.

According to Fars News Agancy, in relevant remarks on Saturday, Rouhani and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a meeting underlined continued cooperation between the two countries in campaign against terrorist groups, efforts to stabilize Syria and defense and economic fields.

"Iran and Russia's cooperation in fighting the ISIL and other terrorist groups in the region have been effective and yielded results and this cooperation will continue," Rouhani said in the meeting on the sidelines of the two-day SCO summit.

Putin, for his part, said that "regional cooperation with Iran, specially to resolve the crisis in Syria, will continue".

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