Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) shakes hands with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana, Kazakhstan, June 13, 2011. Hu and Nazarbayev held talks here Monday. [Photo/Xinhua]

CLOSER COORDINATION ON INTERNATIONAL ARENA

International cooperation is an important part of the newly upgraded all-round strategic partnership between China and Kazakhstan, said the joint statement.

In the statement, the two countries vowed to continue strengthening coordination and cooperation under multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) to maintain closer coordination on major international and regional issues.

Since the SCO was founded a decade ago, the organization has played a crucial role in deepening mutual trust and friendly cooperation between member countries, promoting common development and maintaining regional peace, security and stability, the statement noted.

Both China and Kazakhstan will work hard to contribute to the expansion and deepening of practical cooperation in security, economy and people-to-people exchanges under the SCO framework, it said.

China and Kazakhstan believe that the United Nations must play an important role in maintaining world peace, promoting common development and strengthening cooperation on international issues, the statement said.

Both sides support rational and necessary reform of the UN Security Council so that it can better serve its role of maintaining international peace and security as stipulated in the UN Charter.

Both sides believe that there must be broad-based consensus on a package solution to the UN reform which accommodates the interests and concerns of all member states and is reached through broad-based consultations.

Moreover, to preserve unity among member states, there should be no preset timetable for the reform, no early submission of agendas that have not obtained overwhelming support of member states, and no piecemeal approach to the reform, it said.

The two countries also pledged deeper coordination and cooperation under the CICA to promote its smooth development, strengthen mutual trust and cooperation between member countries, and to maintain regional peace and security.

Both sides support the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia and call for countries with nuclear weapons to sign related protocols under the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, the statement said. "Both sides will make continued efforts in promoting nuclear non-proliferation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."