上海合作组织取得丰硕成果

 　　The SCO Development Strategy until 2025 was approved at the summit.

　　It charts out the course of future cooperation between the bloc 1's member states in terms of politics, security, trade and people-to-people exchanges.
　　It also encourages the member states to expand exchanges with other regional and international organizations and enhance the bloc's influence worldwide.
　　Particularly, the comprehensive blueprint 2 prioritizes in-depth economic cooperation.
　　上海合作组织取得丰硕成果
　　During the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, agreed to build the SCO into a major platform to combine China's Silk Road initiative with Russia's aspirations 4 under the Eurasian Economic Union framework.
　　Director of the institute of economics, finance and business at Bashkir state university Rustem Akhunov is upbeat about the prospects 6 for cooperation between SCO and the Eurasian Economic Union.
　　"I think cooperation between SCO and Eurasian Economic Union has a very promising 7 prospect 5, especially in the economic aspects. The two organizations can develop together, complement 8 each other and work together in program implementation 9."
　　Another highlight of the summit was the bloc's first expansion since its establishment.
　　A ratified 10 resolution gave green light for India and Pakistan to become SCO full members, elevated Belarus to the status of observer, and took in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Nepal as dialogue partners.
　　It is believed the accession can help iron out differences between traditional rivals and reinforce efforts against terrorism and extremism in the region.
　　Akhunov says the decision could help the bloc to serve as a platform for broader economic and political cooperation.
　　"In my opinion, SCO will have a new development and will become stronger. And in that circumstance, it will become an organization which provides new ideas and suggestions for world economy and international political development."
　　The summit also saw the release of a statement, calling for resolute 11 opposition 12 to any distortion of the results of WWII.
　　Leaders of all SCO member states have confirmed their participation 13 in China's commemorative activities this September in Beijing.
　　Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov oted that the SCO takes a zero tolerance 14 stance on Nazi 15 heroisation.
　　"SCO members have made a lot of efforts to remind the international society not to forget the cause and the result of the war, not to forget who won the war and who tried to conquer the world and build a world structure of single-level dictatorship. Therefore, SCO members including Russia and China and other countries take a zero tolerance on Nazi and Nazism 16 heroisation."
　　Also adopted at the were several documents concerning security and stability in the region, including an agreement on strengthening border defense 17, a cooperative outline on combating the "three evil forces" and a joint 18 statement on tackling drug production and trafficking.
　　Leaders of the six member states stressed that joint efforts must be made to respond to conventional and non-conventional challenges and threats.
　　For CRI, I'm Luo Bin 3.