The proposal made by Chinese President Hu Jintao at the sixth
summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was hailed
Thursday in Pakistan and Mongolia, two of the four observers of the
regional group.
Pakistan appreciates the constructive ideas China put forward on
Thursday's SCO summit, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim
Aslam told Xinhua News Agency in Islamabad.
Hu's proposal will help enhance cooperation among the SCO
members and observers, she said. Pakistan has been able to benefit
from the very constructive steps so far the SCO has taken, she
added.
President Hu proposed forming a convention for lasting good
neighborhood relations and cooperation within the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
In Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, General Secretary of
Mongolia-China Friendship Association M. Chimedtseye said Hu's
proposal is in conformity with the development trend of the world
and is conducive to the realization of the SCO goal of common
development.
He said the SCO has become a platform for regional cooperation
and it will grow into a major force for maintaining peace and
promoting development in the region.
Mongolian scholars have been closely watching the one-day SCO
summit meeting and they hope the SCO's development will offer more
chances for Mongolia's development, Chimedtseye said.
Meanwhile, scholars in Russia and Romania expressed their views
over the SCO and its sixth summit.
In Moscow, Mikhail Titarenko, chief of the Far Eastern Research
Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, said this year's
summit of the regional organization has positive implications for
the healthy development and stabilization of the situation in
Central Asia.
In Bucharest, capital of Romania, Simona Haiduc, director of the
International Department of the Curentul newspaper, described the
summit as "very important."
(Xinhua News Agency June 16, 2006)