Leaders attended the 18th SCO summit in China on June 16-17, 2018.   (Photo: AP)

The communiqué said SCO members consistently support the mediation of conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula, and other regional conflicts under the frameworks of widely-acknowledged norms and principles of international law. They stressed the importance to continue the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, also the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

The next SCO summit will be held in Kyrgyzstan next year. Established in 2001, the organization’s eight members are China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.