"Of those, 7,000 police will be assigned from other towns," Kuzmin said.

At present, law-enforcement authorities are settling the issues of accommodation and provision of meals for visiting police officers. "Using a well-honed practice, we’re holding consultations and settling the issue of coordination with representatives of law-enforcement bodies of the SCO members," he noted.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a subregional international organization comprising six states: Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, India, Iran and Pakistan have been granted the observe status.

At the SCO summit in Dushanbe on 28 August 2008, the SCO leaders adopted a joint communique on Russia’s taking over SCO chairmanship next year. The next summit is due in Yekaterinburg in June 2009.