- SCO confirms commitment to formation of a more representative, democratic, just and multipolar world with a central coordinating role of the UN.
- The Member States reaffirm that the SCO is not directed against other states and international organizations and is open to broad cooperation with them.
- SCO pursues a policy that excludes bloc, ideological and confrontational approaches to address the problems of international and regional development, countering traditional and nontraditional security challenges and threats.
- The Member States advocate respect for the right of peoples to an independent and democratic choice of the paths of their political and socio-economic development.
- The Member States consider Central Asia to be the core of SCO and support the efforts of the countries of the region to ensure prosperity and peace, sustainable development and the formation of a space of good-neighbourliness, trust and friendship.
- The Member States note the inadmissibility of interference in the internal affairs of states under the pretext of countering terrorism and extremism.
- The Member States consider it important to build up joint coordinated efforts by the international community to counter the attempts to involve young people in the activities of terrorist, separatist and extremist groups.
- Subject to their national laws and on the basis of consensus, the Member States will seek to develop common principles and approaches to form a unified list of terrorist, separatist and extremist organizations whose activities are prohibited on the territories of the SCO Member States.
- The Member States categorically oppose militarization of information and communication technologies.
- SCO Member States that are parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons are in favour of strict observance of the provisions of the Treaty, as well as the promotion of an equitable, mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
- The Member States reiterate that unilateral and unlimited expansion of global missile defense systems by certain countries or groups of countries has a negative impact on the international security and stability. They consider unacceptable attempts to ensure their own security at the expense of the security of other States.
- The Member States advocate keeping outer space free of weapons of any kind and state the importance of strict observance of existing legal regime, which provides for solely peaceful use of outer space.
- SCO emphasizes the importance for strict adherence to the Convention on Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) through adoption of a Protocol to the Convention which provides for an effective verification mechanism.
- The Member States consider that the early entry into force of the Protocol on Security Assurances to the Agreement on a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia for all signatories, will become a significant contribution to regional security and the strengthening of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
- The Member States consider sustainable implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan on the Iranian nuclear program to be important.
- SCO advocates building Afghanistan as an independent, neutral, united, democratic and peaceful state, free from terrorism, war and drugs.
- SCO emphasizes the need for early implementation of an inclusive reform of the WTO focusing on the issues of its development and adaptation to modern economic realities, as well as effective implementation of the functions of monitoring, negotiation and settlement of disputes.
- SCO stresses that unilateral application of economic sanctions other than those approved by the UN Security Council are incompatible with the principles of international law and have a negative impact on the third countries and international economic relations.
- SCO Member States spoke in favour of implementing the Roadmap for gradual increase in the share of national currencies in mutual settlements by the interested Member States.
Full text of the Declaration is available here: http://eng.sectsco.org/load/948725/
///nCa, 5 July 2023
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