SCO summit promotes regional stability, cooperation (3)

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SCO summit promotes regional stability, cooperation (3)

(Xinhua) 09:47, September 14, 2013

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PLANNING LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT

At the summit, SCO leaders approved a framework to implement the Treaty on Long-Term Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation. The framework is essentially important for SCO's healthy development, for it will guide its members to promote political mutual trust and conduct in-depth pragmatic cooperation.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said that the framework confirms nearly seventy cooperative measures in over twenty domains, and sets a five-year plan for cooperation from cementing interstate relations to implementing projects.

In line with consensus reached by the leaders, the SCO plans to launch cooperation in law enforcement departments between member states and observer states this year.

Such cooperation is expected between member states and dialogue partners in 2014.

Those steps are conducive to build consensus and joint efforts.

Being an important member of SCO, China plays a big role in propelling the group development and its internal cooperation. In light of the developing regional situation, China raised many proposals for SCO's development, which were recognized by the relevant parties.

Dmitry Mezentsev, SCO's secretary general, believed that the group has been well-developed in all directions during the last twelve years which is not a long time in a historical range.

In the coming years, scales, contents and level of the cooperation among SCO members will further develop, said Mezentsev, asserting that it has a bright future.