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SCO aims to create new order
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CHINA and its five northern neighbours announced in Shanghai on Friday morning to set up a regional co-operation organization, the Shanghai Co-operation Organization, to ensure regional security in central Asia as well as create a new political and economic order in the world.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov and Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed the declaration of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO).
The declaration said that the organization will try all out to safeguard the regional security and co-operate with each other in fighting against terrorism, separatism and extremism.
The SCO member states also announced to initiate an anti-terrorism centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
While encouraging member states to co-operate in economy and trade, science and technology, culture, education, energy, transportation and environmental protection, the SCO aims to create a new international political and economic order featuring democracy, justness and rationality.
The signing parties of the declaration also promoted the “Shanghai Spirit”, which embodies mutual trust and benefit, equality, consultation, mutual respect to different civilizations and common prosperity.
Meanwhile, the organization pledged to allow other countries, which must meet its requirements, to join in.(Xinhua)
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