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SCO outlines new norm of international relations
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-06-16 15:43
SHANGHAI -- Five years after its birth, the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) has outlined a new norm of international relations
aiming at ensuring the equal rights for all countries worldwide.
The new norm, proposed in the form of a new global security architecture,
is centered on the "Shanghai Spirit" featuring mutual trust, mutual
benefit, equality, consultation, respect for multi-civilizations and
pursuit of common development.
The norm is of critical importance to the international community's
pursuit of a new and non-confrontational model of international
relations, a model that calls for discarding the Cold War mentality and
transcending ideological differences, said a SCO declaration signed at
Thursday's annual summit meeting.
The new concept enriches the theory and practice of contemporary
international relations and embodies the shared aspiration of the
international community for the democratization in international
relations.
The proposed norm of international relations and global security
architecture is based on the widely recognized principles of
international law. It discards "double standards" and demands respect of
the diversity of civilization and models of development.
It opposes interference in other countries' internal affairs, using the
excuse of the differences in cultural traditions, political and social
systems, values and model of development formed in the course of history.
Established in June 2001, the regional organization comprises China,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its member
states take up 60 percent of Euroasia and a quarter of the world's
population.
Security remained in prior agenda for the SCO members. Of the 10
documents signed by the heads of state of the six SCO members Thursday,
four are about security cooperation, including an anti- terrorism
resolution for 2007-2009 period, an agreement on joint anti-terrorism
actions among member countries, and an agreement on cutting off the
infiltration channels of terrorists, separatists and extremists.
The six SCO members also vowed to enhance international information
security and eliminate possible dangers of using information and
communication technologies for criminal or terrorist purposes -- a move
indicating the SCO's security cooperation has gone far beyond regional
disarmament and border issues to tackle conventional as well as
unconventional threats and challenges facing the whole humanity.
Despite its readiness to carry out international cooperation, the SCO
holds it is the right and responsibility of the countries in the region
themselves to decide what specific means and mechanism should be taken to
safeguard their security.
The six member states also vowed to safeguard each other's sovereignty,
security and territorial integrity and in case of emergencies that
threaten regional peace, stability and security, they will have immediate
consultations and respond effective to protect the interests of both SCO
and its member states.
They have sought to maintain security and harmony in Euroasia and the
entire world through all-round cooperation and exchanges in trade,
economic and cultural sectors.
"Terrorism sometimes originates from poverty," said Zhao Changqing, a
researcher with the SCO research center of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences. "Trade and economic cooperation within the SCO framework will
enhance regional security and eventually benefit the people in these
countries."
The Euroasia boasts diversity in cultural traditions and religious,
including Buddhism, Taoism, Islam and Orthodox. Enhanced cultural and
humanistic cooperation among the SCO members have provided a platform for
dialogues among peoples of different ethnic groups, and make different
cultures boom in peaceful context instead of conflicts.
The new norm of international relations is timely, constructive as well
as feasible and will help strengthen security, peace and harmony in
Euroasia and the world at large, said Sun Zhuangzhi, secretary-general of
the SCO research center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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