Xi Jinping gives a speech at the 13th
Shanghai Cooperation Organization Head of State Meeting
Xinhua Bishkek – September 13 (Electronic Edition) – On the
13th Xi Jinping attended the 13th Shanghai Cooperation
Organization’s Head of State Meeting, giving an important speech entitled “Promoting
the ‘Spirit of Shanghai’ of Shared Development”. Below is the complete speech.
Promoting the ‘Spirit of Shanghai’ of Shared Development
Speech delivered at the 13th Shanghai
Cooperation Organization Head of State Meeting
(September 13, 2013 – Bishkek)
Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping
Honorable President Atambayev,
Honorable colleagues:
I am very happy to attend the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization’s Bishkek meeting, and would like to thank Kyrgyzstan for
meticulously preparing for and hosting today’s meeting. For the past year, Kyrgyzstan has made great
efforts to push for the development of this organization, and China would like
to offer its heartfelt praise for everything that Kyrgyzstan has done.
In the face of the latest developments and changes in the
region and the international community, and with accordance to to the member
nations’ upholding of stability, economic development, and meeting of demands
for higher quality of life, this summit has chosen the “Shanghai Cooperation
Organization Member Nations Long-term Friendly Neighbor Cooperation Pact” as
its central subject and will ratify the “Pact”, carrying out this plan by
designing a comprehensive blue print for the next five years of development, using
this plan to further expand the developmental prospects of this organization.
At present, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization faces a
number of rare opportunities and serious challenges. The “Three Forces”, drug trafficking, and
transnational crime threaten the peace and stability of the region. In the midst of the international financial
crisis, each country has been negatively affected in varying degrees, and has
entered periods of adjustment and recovery.
It is very difficult for any one country to face these
challenges on its own. We must
strengthen our cooperation and join forces.
In light of the aforementioned circumstances, I suggest that this
organization strengthen cooperation in the following aspects.
1. Promote the “Spirit of Shanghai”. In the “Spirit of Shanghai”, we must
continuously increase multilateral communication, and establish mutual
cooperation on the basis of equality, consultation, and give-and-take basis,
corresponding to the trends of modern development and matching the interests
and demands of each member nation.
We must raise this flag and earnestly carry out the “Shanghai
Cooperation Organization Member Nations Long-term Friendly Neighbor Cooperation
Pact”, genuinely pushing for cooperation in all areas within this framework,
allowing member nations to become good neighbors, good friends, and good
partners.
2. Work together to uphold peace and stability in the
region. An environment of peace and
stability requires that we work together, cooperating to realize the necessary
conditions of mutual development and prosperity. We must carry out the “Combating Terrorism,
Separatism and Extremism, Shanghai Convention” and plans for cooperation. We must perfect this organization’s systems
for cooperating on security and organizations for combatting terrorism and drug
trafficking, and use this basis to establish a center for responding to
security threats and challenges.
Each member nation should also establish avenues for
day-to-day communication, explore methods for joint activities, and work
together to fight the “Three Forces”, establishing better quality of life for
all the peoples in the region.
Afghanistan is an observer nation of this organization,
and the situation there is becoming more related to the safety and stability of
the region. This organization should
support the Afghani people and help Afghanistan achieve peace and stability as
soon as possible, thus upholding the security of the region.
3. Work strongly for concrete cooperation. Concrete cooperation is the main basis and
driving force of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Six of the member nations and five of the observer
nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are located on the path of the
ancient Silk Road. As member nations and
observer nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, we have the duty to
pass on and strengthen the spirit of the Silk Road.
First, we must build major thoroughfares for the flow of
traffic and goods, quickly implementing the “Agreement on International Road Transport
Facilitation”. After this is
accomplished, I suggest we extend these thoroughfares according to the
willingness of observer nations, thus establishing roads from the Baltic Sea to
the Pacific Ocean, from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.
Second, we must reach agreements facilitating trade and
investment. We must open up cooperation,
seeking to streamline trade and investment according to the interests of all
sides, making use of each country’s potential, achieving comparative advantage,
and promoting mutual development and prosperity.
Third, we must strengthen our financial cooperation. We should push for a developmental bank for
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, establishing a platform for economic
cooperation, financial security, and settling payments. At the same time, we should quickly set up a
special account for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, allowing programs
within the framework to fund research, exchanges, and training. Proper use of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Bank would greatly strengthen exchange and cooperation between financial
institutions of the region.
Fourth, we must establish an energy club. We must cooperate within the framework of
this organization to foster environmental cooperation, establish stable trade
relations, and ensure energy safety, while also raising our ability to work together
in a broader sense to open up new sources of energy.
Fifth, we must establish an institution to cooperate on
issues of food safety. On issues such as
agricultural production, the trade of agricultural products, and food safety,
we must work to ensure the security of sources of food.
4. We must strengthen cultural exchanges between our peoples,
establishing popular support for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization within
our societies. We should broaden our
cooperation in areas such as culture, education, television, health, and
travel.
At the Beijing Summit, China already announced that over
the next ten years it will provide thirty-thousand government scholarships to
member nations. We wish to work with
closely with member nations to carry out this program.
China will establish the “China – Shanghai Cooperation
Organization Center for Training in International Law and Exchange and
Cooperation” at the Shanghai Institute of Politics and Law, and wishes to use
this platform to offer training and education for member nations.
Traditional medicine is a new field of cooperation for
the organization, and China wishes to offer to set up Traditional Chinese
Medicine institutes in member nations, using traditional medical resources to
offer health services to member nations.
In accordance with the agreement reached by all members,
China has already established a committee for the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, and suggests that both member nations and observer nations establish
similar social institutions, increasing understanding and traditional
friendship between our peoples.
This meeting’s “Bishkek Declaration” has already
described the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s position on the Syrian
crisis. I would like to stress that
China is deeply concerned with the situation in Syria, and supports positive
efforts by the international community to end the violence, promote talks, and
call for a political solution to the crisis in Syria. China supports Russia’s proposal that Syrian
chemical weapons should be inspected and destroyed by the international
community, and wishes to strengthen communication and coordination between
relevant organizations and the UN Security Council, continuing to work hard in
pushing for a political solution.
Thank you.
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