RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN CHINESE PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN AND TAJIK
PRESIDENT RAKHMONOV SIT DURING STATEMENT TO MEDIA IN ST.PETERSBURG.


Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) speaks with Tajikistan's President
Imomali Rakhmonov (R) as Chinese President Jiang Zemin (L) looks on
during a statement to the media after the summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization at the Marble Palace in St.Petersburg, June 7,
2002. The summit participants agreed to turn their group into a
fully-fledged international organization. REUTERS/Pool/Dmitry Lovetsky
REUTERS