A 2-day meeting of the Foreign Minister's Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is taking place in the Uzbek capital Tashkent. For more on the background to this, we're joined now in the studio by Jia Xiudong, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies. 

Q1: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will conclude the two-day meeting in Uzbekistan today. During the meeting he is trying to consolidate cooperation in regional security, and push forward economic cooperation under the "One Belt One Road" initiative. What's your take on the progress that has been made? 

Q2: In June, Wang Yi will be back in Tashkent for the 15th SCO summit. After 15 years of development, in what way will the SCO benefit regional security and economic cooperation in the future?