The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Defense Ministers’ Meeting held in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Wednesday and Thursday, is set to further consolidate and deepen the military mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation among SCO member countries in an increasingly volatile world.

Attended by defense chiefs of SCO member countries, as well as senior officials of the SCO Secretariat and the Executive Committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, the meeting is one of the key events hosted by China during its rotating presidency of the SCO this year to promote the implementation of a joint initiative to build a common home for the SCO.

President Xi Jinping put forward that initiative at an expanded meeting of the SCO in Astana, Kazakhstan, last year, calling for the building of a common home of the SCO featuring solidarity and mutual trust, peace and tranquility, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, as well as fairness and justice.

Seeking reliable security guarantees is one of the key tasks to build the SCO common home, along with efforts........

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