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Hu proposes convention for neighborly relations (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-06-15 13:38
On human and cultural exchanges, he asked for the serious implementation of
an education cooperation agreement inked at the summit and strengthen
cooperation on joint programs cultivating talented people.
Chinese President Hu
Jintao speaks to the media at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
summit in Shanghai June 15, 2006. [Reuters] | The Chinese
president appealed for the adherence to the principle of opening-up and
cooperation for the purpose of world peace.
"We hope the international
community could respect the social system and road of development independently
chosen by SCO member countries and observer countries, respect their internal
and external policies of peace, friendship and cooperation based on their own
domestic situation and create a harmonious and easy environment for their
development," he said.
Hu recalled the founding of the SCO, saying the
"historic decision" to establish such an organization has forged a broad arena
for the further development of good-neighborly, trusty and beneficial
cooperation between the six member countries.
He attributed the
significant growth of the SCO to the member countries' advantages and the
adherence to the principles of peace and development, sufficient democracy and
opening-up.
"The successful experience of the SCO can be condensed to
one point, that is to unswervingly advocate and practice the Shanghai Spirit of
mutual trust and benefit, equality, respect for cultural diversity and a desire
for common development," he said.
Peace, development and cooperation
have become a trend of the current world, but various traditional and
untraditional threats to security still interweave. Like the other parts of the
world, the SCO region maintains basically stable but is faced with "three evil
forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism, and the problems of drugs and
cross-border crimes. In particular, the region is economically less developed.
"We should enhance all-round cooperation and strive to turn the region into
a harmonious area with lasting peace and common prosperity," Hu said.
On
the SCO's external relations, Hu said to include Mongolia, Pakistan, Iran and
India in the SCO as observers is conducive to playing the organization's role in
promoting peace and development.
China will join hands with other member
countries to push forward the SCO's substantial cooperation with observers, with
Afghanistan, and with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Echoing Hu's remarks, Kazakh
President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at Thursday's summit that the SCO has become
an important element in current international relations over the past five
years.
Safeguarding regional security and stability, the SCO has
witnessed an increasing status and a stronger anti-terrorism capability,
Nazarbayev said.
As the SCO member states boast abundant natural
resources and huge potential in human resources, it is of great importance to
step up economic cooperation within the SCO framework, said the Kazakh
president.
Nazarbayev also urged the SCO member states to respect
diverse cultures in the region and understand each other.
Chinese
President Hu Jintao stressed that China will follow the road of peaceful
development, stick to an opening-up strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, and
abide by the foreign principle of to building friendship and partnership with
neighbors and the foreign policy of fostering an amicable, peaceful and
prosperous neighborhood.
China's peaceful development will bring about
great opportunities for neighboring countries, especially SCO members, and China
will constantly increase input and push forward the development of the SCO, Hu
noted.
SCO members sign agreements
Shanghai
Cooperation Organization member countries on Thursday signed ten documents on
information security, anti-terrorism, economic and financial cooperation at a
summit meeting.
The documents include a declaration on the fifth
anniversary of the SCO founding, a statement on international information
security, a resolution on SCO secretary-general and another on the secretariat,
a resolution on fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism from 2007 to 2009,
an agreement on joint anti-terrorism actions among member countries, and an
agreement on cutting off the infiltration channels of terrorists, separatists
and extremists.
In addition, there are an agreement on
inter-governmental education cooperation, a resolution on the SCO Entrepreneurs'
Committee, and an action guideline for the SCO banks consortium.
The SCO
is an intergovernmental organization founded in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, by
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan.
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