Experts envision closer SCO community with shared future

"The Shanghai Spirit is truly a spirit of equality, a search for compromise, and a search for the preservation of diversity in the world," said Andrei Karneev, head of School of Asian Studies, Higher School of Economics in Russia.

Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states on Friday signed and released the Samarkand Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The declaration reaffirms that it is of great practical significance to work together to build a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness and justice as well as win-win cooperation, and to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

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