Ahmadinejad joins Asian leaders at Shanghai summit

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Leaders opened an Asian security summit on Thursday under scrutiny for signs that the group's embrace of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would signal a shift toward an outwardly anti-Western stance. The presidents of China, Russia and four Central Asian nations - the core members of the grouping known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization - held a closed-door meeting. They were later to hold an enlarged session with Ahmadinejad and the leaders and representatives of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Mongolia.