Appendix A.4: Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement between Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure

Appendix A: Key Normative Documents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

• Declaration on the Establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – June 15, 2001
• The Shanghai Convention on Combating Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism – June 15, 2001
• Agreement between the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure – June 7, 2002
• Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement between Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure – August 16, 2007
• Charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – June 7, 2002
• The Regulations on Observer Status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – April 24, 2004
• Agreement on the Database of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – June 28, 2004
• Concept of Cooperation between SCO Member States in Combating Terrorism, Separatism, and Extremism – June 5, 2005
• Protocol on Establishment of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – November 4, 2005
• Treaty on Long-Term Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – August 16, 2007
• Regulations on the Status of Dialogue Partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – August 8, 2008
• Agreement on the Procedure for Organizing and Conducting Joint Anti-Terrorist Exercises by Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – August 28, 2008
• The Convention on Counter-Terrorism of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – June 16, 2009

Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement between Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure

The member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have concluded the present Protocol regarding the following:

Article 1

To make the following amendments to the Agreement Between Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the Regional Terrorist Structure:

Paragraph 3 of Article 11 of the Agreement shall read as follows:

“The Director shall be appointed by the Council of Heads of State of the SCO upon the recommendation of the Council. The Director’s deputies shall be appointed and removed from their positions by the Council upon the proposal of the Parties to which said positions pertain.”;

Article 21 of the Agreement shall read as follows: “The official and working languages of RATS shall be Russian and Chinese.”

Article 2

The present Protocol shall take effect in the manner provided for in Article 26 of the Agreement.

The present Protocol shall be provisionally adopted from the date of its signing.

Done in the city of Bishkek on 16 August 2007 in one original copy in the Russian and Chinese languages, both texts having equal validity.

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