Shanghai Cooperation Organization Aims to Create New World OrderChina and its five northern neighbors announced Friday morning in Shanghai to set up a regional cooperation organization, the Shanghai Cooperation 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 Cooperation Organization (SCO). The declaration said that the organization will try all out to safeguard the regional security and cooperate with each other in fighting against terrorism, separatism and extremism. The SCO member states also announced to initiate an anti- terrorism center in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. While encouraging member states to cooperating 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. |
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