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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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