SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION SUMMIT IN BISHKEK
(L-R) Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emoamli Rakhmon, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Afghan President Khamid Karzai pose for a group photo as they gather for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek on August 16, 2007. The leaders of Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states said on Thursday energy cooperation was the key to the security in their resource-rich region, which they intend to uphold through common instruments. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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