MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - Following the historic Russian-Chinese military exercises conducted of the Shandong Peninsula, Russia is contemplating a similar exercise with China in 2006, a Defense Ministry official said.
"We first have to analyze the results of the Peace Mission 2005 joint Russian-Chinese anti-terrorist exercise," the official said. "It has not been decided yet, but I think we will conduct another exercise with China next year."
Russia and China have started working on certain ideas regarding the exercise, including the possibility of the participation of other Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India, Mongolia, Iran and Pakistan have observer status.
"It is possible by the time we decided to conduct new exercises with China, other SCO countries would be willing to join, including the observers, like India," the official said.
