ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing while addressing at SCO Seminar in Islamabad on Tuesday urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States to devise a counter terrorism policy, and argued that a peaceful Afghanistan was imperative for peace in the region.
In his address at SCO Seminar on “Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Challenges and Opportunities” organized by the Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS) in Islamabad, Yao Jing shed lights on “Strategic Role of China in Strengthening the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)”.
The Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing congratulated Pakistan for holding the SCO Seminar in Islamabad, and said the SCO – population wise – was the greatest regional organisation of the World.
The ambassador asked SCO Member States to work on five points of China’s perspective including political mutual trust, political and judiciary relationship, ownership of peace, development belong to regional Countries and regional leadership.
Yao Jing said China advised to develop five-year strategy to deal relationship and challenges in the region.
The Chinese envoy said his Country also welcomed Non-Member States to bring suggestions for economic uplifting of the region.
The envoy suggested that the SCO Development Bank should be established, adding China was also working for the SCO University. He said China wanted Students Exchange Program among SCO Member States.
The Chinese ambassador said China believed people to people contact at all levels from political level to student level was needed to make SCO a positive and useful organisation. He said the Shanghai Cooperation Organization had a bright future, and urged its Members to uphold Openness.
Moreover, he said China was working to enhance productivity in Pakistan and production of several items.
Emphasizing the importance of peace in the region, Yao Jing said SCO Member States were very proactive and trying to bring peace in Afghanistan. He said there was a need for institutional framework for bringing peace in the region.
Earlier in his Opening Remarks, the Chairman CGSS Lieutenant General (retd) Muhammad Zahir-Ul-Islam said the SCO had a great past and future, and its role had been of great significance to ensure peace in the entire region.
The Chairman CGSS said being a member of SCO, Pakistan was a part of a bloc comprising Central Asia China and south West Asia.
Lt General (retd) Zahir-Ul-Islam said Pakistan had exceptional geostrategic positioning. He said Pakistan had historic relationship with several SCO Member Countries.
