DUSHANBE, January 31, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- The board (Shuro) of Tajikistan’s lower chamber (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament considered the issue of ratification of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s convention on combating terrorism at a January 31 meeting, presided over by the Majlisi Namoyandagon Speaker, Shukurjon Zuhurov.

We will recall that SCO leaders present at the Organization’s summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg signed the document during the meeting on June 16 2009.  The convention offers a wider socio-political definition of terrorism as ideology of violence.  It features provisions regulating the SCO countries’ cooperation in the sequestration and seizure of property that has been used in committing crimes or funding such crimes.

Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said that the board also considered amendments to the laws on state support for entrepreneurship, securities and stock exchanges, commodity exchange and trading n the exchange, as well as employers’ associations.

Some of these issues will be considered at a regular sitting of the second session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the fourth convocation that will take place in early February, Sultonov said.