SHANGHAI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The proposal made by
Chinese President Hu Jintao at the sixth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) was hailed Thursday in Pakistan and Mongolia, two of the four
observers of the regional group.
Pakistan appreciates the constructive ideas China put
forward on Thursday's SCO summit, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim
Aslam told Xinhua in Islamabad.
Hu's proposal will help enhance cooperation among the
SCO members and observers, she said. Pakistan has been able to benefit from the
very constructive steps so far the SCO has taken, she added.
President Hu proposed forming a convention for
lasting good neighborhood relations and cooperation within the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
In Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, General
Secretary of Mongolia-China Friendship Association M. Chimedtseye said Hu's
proposal is in conformity with the development trend of the world and is
conducive to the realization of the SCO goal of common development.
He said the SCO has become a platform for regional
cooperation and it will grow into a major force for maintaining peace and
promoting development in the region.
Mongolian scholars have been closely watching the
one-day SCO summit meeting and they hope the SCO's development will offer more
chances for Mongolia's development, Chimedtseye said.
Meanwhile, scholars in Russia and Romania expressed
their views over the SCO and its sixth summit.
In Moscow, Mikhail Titarenko, chief of the Far
Eastern Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, said this year's
summit of the regional organization has positive implications for the healthy
development and stabilization of the situation in Central Asia.
In Bucharest, capital of Romania, Simona Haiduc,
director of the International Department of the Curentul newspaper, described
the summit as "very important." Enditem