BEIJING, July 4, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The following article was published today by
China Daily.
It is the Shanghai Spirit and a shared recognition of its goals
and objectives that have knitted together countries with different
political systems, cultural traditions and levels of socioeconomic
development in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It is good to
see that the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of
the SCO, in the Kazakh capital of Astana on Wednesday and
Thursday, has harvested new fruits in that spirit.
The leaders of the member states signed and issued the Astana
declaration, presented the SCO initiative on countries uniting to
promote world justice, harmony and development and suggestions on
improving the SCO operating mechanism, and released a statement on
the principles of good-neighborliness, mutual trust and
partnership, as well as a series of resolutions involving
cooperation in areas such as energy, investment and information
security.
The reason why the SCO has been able to withstand the test of
the ever-changing international situation is that it has always
adhered to solidarity and cooperation, cooperation based on
equality and mutual benefit, upheld fairness and justice,
demonstrated broad-minded tolerance and encouraged mutual
learning.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out at the SCO summit,
the organization was established at the turn of the century, when
the confrontation and division left over from the Cold War had yet
to be bridged. The founding members of the SCO made a historic
choice to pursue peaceful development, to commit to
good-neighborliness and friendship, and to build a new type of
international relations.
The SCO family now covers 26 countries in three continents, with
the Shanghai Spirit the common bond and action guideline for the
member states. The world stands once again at a crossroad of
history. The SCO is on the right side of history and on the side of
fairness and justice, which is of vital importance to the
world.
In the face of the Cold War mentality, which is the real threat
to global peace and stability, the SCO family maintains the bottom
line of security. It therefore adheres to the practice set out in
the Global Security Initiative of common, comprehensive,
cooperative and sustainable security, responds to complex and
intertwined security challenges through dialogue and cooperation,
and reacts to the profound adjustment of the international pattern
with a win-win mentality.
In the face of countries trying to build "small courtyards with
high walls", the SCO family is safeguarding its right to
development by adhering to universal inclusiveness, jointly
promoting scientific and technological innovation, maintaining the
stability and smoothness of the industrial chain and supply chain,
stimulating the endogenous driving force of the regional economy,
and promoting the realization of common development goals.
In the face of some countries' interference and sowing of the
seeds of division, the SCO family is continuing to consolidate its
unity, working together to resist external interference, and firmly
grasping the future and destiny of the nations concerned and the
peaceful development of the region in their own hands.
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SOURCE China Daily