SCO leaders vow to jointly tackle global threats

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders pledged here Friday to jointly cope with global challenges and ensure a sustainable socioeconomic development in the region.

Solidarity is now the priority as the rapid reshaping of international relations is exerting a significant influence on world politics, economy and security, the leaders pointed out in a press release issued after the 13th SCO summit.

The SCO members have been actively working to fight international terrorism, separatism, extremism, transnational organized crime and other illicit activities, they noted, calling for concerted efforts to improve the legal basis for cooperation in these areas.

Calling drug abuse and illicit trafficking as a grave threat to regional security and stability as well as people's health and well-being, the leaders agreed to set up an effective mechanism to crack down on drug-related threats.

The heads of state also vowed to cooperate with each other to further promote economic modernization in their respective nations, forge a closer investment partnership, and coordinate their development in transportation, telecommunications and other areas.

They pledged to continue working on the proposal of setting up an SCO development fund and an SCO development bank.

Moreover, the SCO heads of state also called for closer cooperation in technology, tourism and culture, saying such efforts will help cement the good-neighborly and friendly relations among SCO nations.

The SCO, which groups China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is an inter-governmental organization founded in the Chinese city of Shanghai on June 15, 2001.

It also has Afghanistan, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan as observers, and Belarus, Sri Lanka and Turkey as dialogue partners.

The next SCO summit, according to the press release, will be held in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe in 2014.

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