FM calls on SCO states to uphold solidarity

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called on members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to maintain strategic autonomy, solidarity and cooperation and never allow external forces to turn the SCO region into a geopolitical arena.

Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks on Tuesday when addressing the meeting of the SCO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan. It was held to make preparations for the 24th meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council in Astana in July.

Wang said that amid global turbulence and transformation, a small number of countries pursue hegemony and power politics, form exclusive cliques, establish hidden rules, and engage in interference and suppression as well as economic decoupling and disruption of industrial and supply chains.