1. Exterior shot of boat floating in front of extravagantly lit Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower 2. Boat with lights 3. Interior shot of SCO member nation leaders walking onto boat (left to right - Hu Jintao - President of China, Kurmanbek Bakiyev - President of Kyrgyzstan, Vladimir Putin - President of Russia, and Nursultan Nazarbayev President of Kazakhstan 4. SCO member leaders sitting waiting for observer nation leaders 5. Lui Yongqing, Chinese President Hu Jintao's wife 6. Handshake between Hu Jintao and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President 7. Putin walking to shake hands with Ahmadinejad 8. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan President greeting Hu and wife 9. Hamid Karzai, Afghan President sitting with Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian President 10. Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, and Emomali Rakhmonov, President of Tajikstan sitting together 11. Exterior of boat with leaders inside 12. Boat with cityscape behind - erupts into fireworks display 13. Fireworks STORYLINE: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member nation leaders and observer nation delegates met on Wednesday on the eve of the 2006 SCO meetings. After greeting each other they officially kicked things off with a huge fireworks display. Member states include Tajikistan, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and also China and Russia who are the dominant voices in this relatively new regional organisation. This year Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Iran are all attending as observers. Iran has observed at the regional meeting before, but this is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first visit to China - in fact it is his first official visit to a non-Islamic nation as President. With Iran negotiating fiercely with the West on nuclear energy and weapons, Ahmadinejad is expected to hold meetings on the sidelines with China and Russia about their stance on the nuclear issue. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), grew out of a regional get together 10 years ago called the "Shanghai Five". The main focus at the time was resolving border conflicts among the neighbours. The SCO has become a practical discussion place for efforts to fight religious extremism and separatism in the region. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7855d6038236d566510118123d8c161f Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork