Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie left here Wednesday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers' meeting in Kazakhstan and a visit to Uzbekistan.
Liang is making the tour at the invitation of Kazakh defense minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov and Uzbek defense minister Kabul Berdiev.
The SCO, founded in Shanghai in 2001, groups China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It pledges to enhance security, trade, cultural, military and justice cooperation among member countries.
