By empty (8/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A two-stage Chinese-Kazakh counterterrorism exercise ended in China\'s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on August 26. The second phase of the exercise, which followed a first phase in Kazakhstan, involved 700 policemen and 100 observers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Vyacheslav Kasimov, head of the SCO\'s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, said the exercise demonstrated regional leaders\' commitment to fighting the \"three evils\" of separatism, terrorism, and extremism.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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