Summit deepens ties in wide range of fields

President Xi Jinping said on Sunday that broad consensus had been reached at the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit as leaders endorsed the Qingdao Declaration and a joint statement on trade facilitation.

The summit also ratified a five-year action plan for implementing the Treaty on Long-Term Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation of the SCO Member States, a cooperation program to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism, and an SCO drug control strategy and its action plan.

Other documents were also approved dealing with cooperation on food security and environmental protection, and a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the SCO Secretariat and UNESCO. The summit also passed a joint message from leaders of SCO members to young people.