A contributor to world stability and common development

The great lengths some countries have gone to form cliques targeting particular countries and their self-serving foreign policies are in stark contrast to the commitment and efforts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to promote political trust, establish win-win cooperation, ensure equality between nations, maintain openness and inclusiveness, and guarantee equity and justice.

While the countries taking unilateral actions are leaving no stones unturned to push the world toward a quagmire of suspicion, confrontation, conflict, division and zero-sum games, the SCO member states are doing their utmost to prevent that from happening by helping the world restore its faith in unity, development and cooperation. The 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Friday represented the organization's latest endeavor to that end.

That the SCO has issued statements on global energy and food security, and prepared the blueprints for deepening cooperation among its member states, means it is taking concrete actions to not only reduce the global deficit of peace, development, trust and governance but also advise those self-serving, division-sowing leaders which way to take at the historical crossroad the world has reached.