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SCO Has Broad Prospects, Stresses Kyrgyzstan PM
Kurmanbek Bakiev, prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, pointed out
during an interview with our staff reporters in Bishket on July 6 that the just
established Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has broad prospects for
development, and indicated that he had great hope on the first summit meeting of
the heads of government of the SCO soon to be held in Alma-Ata.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization Conducive to Regional Conflict Prevention:
Chinese Ambassador
A senior Chinese diplomat said Thursday that the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a new model in boosting regional cooperation
in preventing conflict and fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism and
other factors threatening peace and security in the region.
Wang Yingfan, the Chinese permanent representative to the United Nations, made
the remarks at an open U.N. Security Council consultation on the prevention of
conflict.
"The SCO creates a new model of the regional cooperation characterized by
joint initiative by states, big or small, taking security as a top priority,
mutual benefit and coordination," Wang said.
Meanwhile, the SCO fosters a "Shanghai Spirit" that stresses the
inter-state trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for pluralism
in civilization, and common development, he said.
"This also represents an important initiative to establish a regional
conflict prevention mechanism against terrorism, separatism and extremism which
are detrimental to regional security," he added. On June 15, presidents of
China, Russia
and four Central Asian countries launched the SCO, a new regional body to
promote peace, stability and economic and trade ties.
The SCO groups China, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan.
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Russian Media Hail Creation of Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Leading Russian
newspapers Saturday highly praised the formation of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO), describing it as a "significant event"
in world political life, which will produce profound influence on regional
security and cooperation.
The Rossiyskaya Gazeta (the Russian Gazette) said in a commentary titled
"Shanghai: Guarantee for Security via Cooperation" that the sixth
Shanghai Five summit that ended Friday in its birthplace pronounced the creation
of a new regional cooperation organization. From the historic day, the
international politics dictionary has a new term of the "Shanghai
Cooperation Organization."
The SCO will draw great attention and interest from all the countries that are
ready to discuss regional security and cooperation on a multipartite basis, the
article predicted.
The newspaper "Izvestia" (News) said that the SCO has boundless
prospects as it combines the military-political coordination with economic
cooperation and stands for developing interaction in all fields.
It stressed that the SCO members pledged to strictly hold the "Shanghai
spirit" established by the previous Shanghai Five cooperation mechanism.
They agreed that the cooperation should not be narrowed in regional issues, but
be extended to the international arena, as the threats to security come not only
from Central Asia.
In its Friday edition, Izvestia stressed that President Vladimir Putin "heard
the words of support for the cause of preserving the 1972 ABM (Anti-Ballistic
Missile) treaty. It may be easier for him to hold acquaintance dialogue with
(U.S. President George. W.) Bush in Ljubljana."
An essay with the headline of "From Trust Measures to Full- Scale
Cooperation," carried by the military newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda"
(Red Star) in Saturday's front page said that the essential sense of the sixth
Shanghai summit lies in driving and promoting the active cooperation among the
SCO members in the spheres of economy, politics, science, technology, transport,
ecology and culture, rather than in the change of the name of the forum or its
enlargement.
On Friday, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Independent Gazette) published an article of
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov with a title of "Novelty and Succession in
Russian Foreign Policy," which called the formation of the SCO "a
great success of President Vladimir Putin in foreign policy."
The newspaper TRUD (Labor) noted that "the new association is not an
alliance against third countries or groups of states. It appeared as an
alternative to closed blocs, and implements the idea of strengthening regional
security through cooperation by various guidelines."
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Declaration of Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Presidents of the Republic of Kazakhstan,
the People's Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian
Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan
and the Republic of Uzbekistan
signed Friday the Declaration of Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The presidents highly appraised the active role played by the " Shanghai
Five" in stimulating and deepening mutual trust, good- neighborly and
friendly relations among the member states, strengthening regional security and
stability, and promoting common development in its five years of history, the
Declaration said.
The presidents held the same view that the establishment and development of the
"Shanghai Five" had conformed to the historic trend for peace and
development in the human society after the Cold War and displayed the great
potential of good-neighborly co- existence, unity and cooperation, through
mutual respect and trust, among countries with different civilization
backgrounds and traditional cultures, the Declaration said.
The presidents specially pointed out that the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust
in Border Regions in 1996 in Shanghai and the Treaty on Reduction of Military
Forces in Border Regions in 1997 in Moscow signed by the heads of states of
Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia and Tajikistan, as well as the summary documents of the 1998 Alma-ata
Summit, the 1999 Bishkek Summit and the 2000 Dushanbe Summit, have made
significant contribution to regional and world peace, security and stability,
greatly enriched the modern diplomatic and regional cooperation practice, and
exerted an extensive and positive influence in the international community, the
Declaration said.
Against the backdrop of political multi-polarization, and economic and
information globalization in the 21st century, the presidents firmly believed
that to transform the "Shanghai Five" mechanism into a higher level of
cooperation will help member states to share opportunities and deal with new
challenges and threats more effectively, according to the Declaration.
Therefore, they announced the establishment of the SCO, which aims at
strengthening mutual trust and good-neighborly and friendly relations among
member states, encouraging their further effective cooperation in politics,
economy, science and technology, culture, education, energy, transportation,
environmental protection and other fields, jointly ensuring regional peace,
security and stability, and creating a new international political and economic
order featuring democracy, justness and rationality, according to the
Declaration.
The SCO plans to organize annual formal meeting of heads of states of member
states and regular meetings of heads of governments to be hosted by its members
in turn. In order to extend and strengthen cooperation in various fields, the
SCO is considering, besides the existing meeting mechanism among officials of
corresponding departments, to set up necessary new meeting mechanisms and
establish permanent or temporary expert groups to study plans and proposals for
further cooperation, the Declaration said.
The "Shanghai Spirit", featuring mutual trust and benefit, equality,
consultation, mutual respect to different civilizations and common prosperity,
which was developed in the course of the " Shanghai Five", is a
treasure accumulated through the member states' cooperation in recent years.
This spirit should be carried forward and developed into the principle for
bilateral and multilateral relations of the SCO countries in the 21st century,
the Declaration said.
All the SCO member states should strictly abide by the principle of the Charter
of the United Nations, respect each other's independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity, not to interfere in each other's internal affairs, not to
use force or threat to use force, achieve equality and mutual benefit, solve all
issues through consultations, never to try to gain military superiority over
neighboring countries, according to the Declaration.
On the basis of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in 1996
in Shanghai and the Treaty on Reduction of Military Forces in Border Regions in
1997 in Moscow, the SCO plans to expand cooperation among the member states in
political, economic and trade, cultural, scientific and technological and other
fields. The principles embodied in the above two treaties determine the basis of
the relationship among the SCO member states, the Declaration said.
In pursuit of the principle of non-alignment, not targeting to the third country
or region, and opening to the outside world, the SCO is willing to carry out
various dialogues, exchanges and cooperation with any other country and other
international or regional organizations, the Declaration said.
On the basis of unanimous agreement through consultation among the existing
member states, the SCO is also willing to accept new member which agrees with
the organization's aim, tasks, principle and other provisions, the Declaration
said.
The SCO attaches special importance to make every effort to ensure regional
security. All member states will closely cooperate with each other in
implementing the Shanghai treaty on the crackdown on terrorism, separatism and
extremism, including to establish the SCO anti-terrorism center in Bishkek of
Kyrgyzstan. In addition, the member states will work out corresponding documents
of multinational cooperation in a bid to curb illegal arms smuggling, drug
trafficking, illegal migration and other criminal activities, according to the
Declaration.
Making use of the great potential and extensive opportunities in trade and
economic cooperation among the member states, the SCO will promote the further
development of bilateral and multilateral cooperation between and among member
states and the pluralism of cooperation. Within the SCO framework, the SCO will
start the negotiation procedure of trade and investment facilitation, according
to the Declaration.
The SCO member states will strengthen their consultation and coordination in
regional and international affairs, support and cooperate with each other in
major international and regional issues and promote and consolidate regional and
world peace and stability, the Declaration said.
To maintain global strategic balance and stability under the international
circumstances at present is of special significance, the Declaration said.
The SCO has approved to set up the Council of Coordinators of Member States to
coordinate cooperation among the member states. The activities of the council
are standardized by the Interim Rules of Procedure for the Council of
Coordinators of SCO Member States approved by the foreign ministers of the
member states, the Declaration said.
The council is ordered to draft the SCO charter on the basis of this Declaration
and other documents signed by the heads of states of the "Shanghai Five"
countries. The charter, which is expected to be signed by heads of the states of
member states during the 2002 SCO summit, will expound the principle, purpose
and tasks of the SCO future cooperation, the principle and procedure for
accepting new members, the legal effect of the organization's decisions, and
means of cooperation between the SCO and other international organizations, the
Declaration said.
Summing up the past and looking forward to the future, the presidents believe
that the establishment of the SCO marks a new development stage for cooperation
among all the member states, which conforms to the trend of the times, the
reality of the region and the fundamental interests of the people of all the
member states, the Declaration said.