at a 2005 summit in kazakhstan the sco issued a declaration of heads of member states of the shanghai cooperation organisation which addressed their "concerns" and contained an elaboration of the organisation's principles. it included: "the heads of the member states point out that, against the backdrop of a contradictory process of globalisation, multilateral cooperation, which is based on the principles of equal right and mutual respect, non-intervention in internal affairs of sovereign states, non-confrontational way of thinking and consecutive movement towards democratisation of international relations, contributes to overall peace and security, and call upon the international community, irrespective of its differences in ideology and social structure, to form a new concept of security based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and interaction."