SCO states will continue to comprehensively enhance their capability to guard against threats and risks - Hu Jintao

What are the results of ten-year development of the SCO and its further prospects? What are your expectations from the upcoming summit?

SCO members have jointly taken promoting regional peace and common stability as their own responsibility and have achieved numerous important accomplishments since the founding of the organization.

The SCO has formed a new transnational relationship pattern and has been committed to the development of good-neighborly and friendly cooperation so as to boost mutual trust and coordination to unprecedented highs.

The SCO members have worked together to seek common ground and development while accepting differences under the banner of the Shanghai spirit that highlights mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, negotiations and respect for diversity. The spirit has offered instructive experience for shaping the new type of international relations and promoting a more rational and just global political and economic order.

The multinational body, which is the first to set combating terrorism, separatism and extremism as goals, has promoted regional peace and stability.

The SCO members have signed an anti-terrorism convention and formulated political, diplomatic and security measures in case of incidents that could endanger regional peace, security and stability. And they have conducted more than a dozen joint counter-terrorism exercises, as well as law-enforcement security campaigns.

As a result, the SCO has effectively contained the three evil forces, drug-trafficking and transnational organized crime, and have, therefore, played a key role in maintaining regional peace and stability.

The SCO has boosted common development in the fields of transportation, energy and telecommunications for countries in the region, and China has promised to provide preferential loans worth over 12 billion U.S. dollars to other SCO members to support projects in these cooperation areas.

The ratios of the total trade volume and economic aggregate of SCO member states out of the global totals have both increased to 13 percent from 8 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.

The SCO's global influence has been on the rise since its inception. The organization has actively engaged in extensive international cooperation according to the UN charter and principles, and has had four observer states and two dialogue partners.

The SCO has also made contributions to accelerating the peaceful reconstruction of Afghanistan, and it has become an indispensable force in addressing security challenges in the region.

The achievements have demonstrated that the SCO is an important leverage instrument for preserving regional peace and stability, as well as a strong force for promoting common development and prosperity among countries in the region.

The world is currently undergoing a number of profound changes, said the president, adding that all nations face historic opportunities and challenges and the next decade will be a key period for the development of both SCO members and the organization itself.

SCO members will work together, continue to stress security and pragmatic cooperation and create a favorable environment for the organization to make even greater contributions to protecting the common interests of SCO members and promoting regional economic development.

The leaders who attend the Beijing summit will thoroughly study the opportunities and challenges presented by the changes in international and regional situations, draw the blueprint for the organization's future development, sign a series of important cooperation documents and set future goals for long-term development.

In what way does the SCO differ from other international and regional organizations?

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has successfully explored a new method for regional cooperation by following new trends in security and development.

The SCO conforms to the current trends of peace and development and the common aspirations of all people in the region.

The SCO has advocated a new security concept that allows its member states to firmly maintain their interests, explore development paths that are suited to their individual conditions and fight against "interventionism."

The Organization will strengthen consultation and communication on issues related to the core interests of its member states and enhance coordination and cooperation on major international and regional issues.

SCO member states should follow the trend of economic globalization and work to complement each other's advantages in order to promote economic growth and improve livelihoods.

The SCO is committed to sustaining inclusive dialogue among the people of its member countries, as well as respecting differences between its members. The group's members have carried out cooperation while drawing on each other's strengths.

The SCO is a non-confrontational organization. The group has set an example for deepening friendly cooperation, promoting common prosperity and maintaining regional peace and stability.

SCO member states will work together to better organize their cooperative efforts for the benefit of their respective citizens.

SCO has entered the second decade of its development. The current international and regional situation is undergoing profound changes; the Organization is facing more serious challenges. From which position will SCO member states respond to these challenges and threats?

Multiple factors, such as regional hotspot issues, the repercussions of the global financial crisis, the "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism, drug trafficking and transborder organized crime have posed threat to regional security and prosperity.

In order to tackle security challenges, SCO members will continue to comprehensively enhance their capability to guard against threats and risks.

We will continue to manage regional affairs by ourselves, be on guard against external turbulence and play a bigger role in Afghanistan's peaceful reconstruction.

SCO members will set up a refined system for security cooperation while boosting their ability to prevent and manage crises.

We will intensify communication and coordination on key global and regional issues to safeguard common security and the development interests of member states.

SCO regulations regarding political and diplomatic responses to events that could jeopardize peace and stability will be perfected at the summit, while a cooperative program on fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism for the 2013-2015 period will be ratified at the Beijing Summit.

I believe these new measures will help the SCO to better safeguard regional peace, security and stability.

How the SCO member states will strengthen friendship and multifaceted cooperation? Will there be taken any measures to strengthen cooperation in infrastructure construction, trade and investment activities and the mechanism of financial support?

One of the most important topics of the summit is to research measures to further strengthen friendship and cooperation among SCO member states.

Transportation is one of the preferential items that SCO member states should cooperate on developing, and SCO member states are consulting an agreement to make international traffic more convenient.

To ink the agreement, a traffic network covering all SCO member states will be built, aiming to promote trade and people-to-people exchanges, as well as speed up economic development and improve people's living standards among those countries.

We will promote establishing and perfecting the finance safeguarding mechanism of the SCO. China is willing to establish the mechanism at an early date so as to serve the economic construction and regional development of SCO members.

How will SCO member states strengthen their cooperation in resolving the problems of "hotspots" such as the North Korean nuclear issue, Iran's nuclear program and the Afghan settlement?

The SCO hopes to promote the denuclearization process on the Korean Peninsula through the six-party talks, so as to safeguard peace and stability on the peninsula and in Northeast Asia.

On the Iran nuclear issue the SCO member states support Russia, the United States, Germany, Britain, France and China in opening a sustainable dialogue with Iran and resolving the Iran nuclear crisis through political and diplomatic means.

The SCO member states call on all parties to refrain from remarks and actions that could lead to the escalation of confrontations.

These moves will be of practical significance to the maintenance of peace and stability in the Middle East and the pursuit of a comprehensive, long-term and appropriate resolution to the Iran nuclear issue.

The SCO supports Afghanistan in establishing itself as an independent, peaceful, prosperous, good-neighborly country that is free of terrorism and drugs.

The SCO supports the United Nations in playing a leading role in mediation and assistance efforts in Afghanistan. The Organization has already set up an SCO-Afghanistan liaison group, and Afghanistan will be accepted as an observer state in the upcoming summit. The SCO will continue to host relevant consultations and meetings and back Afghanistan's reconstruction efforts with practical actions.

As Xinhua said, the SCO was founded in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, and currently has six full members -- China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, Iran, Pakistan and India are four observer states, and its dialogue partners include Belarus and Sri Lanka.