AN agreement on regional security and stability, the war on terrorism and drug trafficking was signed yesterday by Dmitry Fedorovich Mezentsev, secretary general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Ambassador Cinar Aldemir, executive director of the Secretariat of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.

Mezentsev said the memorandum of understanding had been unanimously approved by both CICA and SCO member states.

He said it was both bodies’ first step in the field of counter-terrorism and it had established a direction and legal framework for future cooperation.