In Tashkent, the XIX meeting of the Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) takes place, the State Agency of the UZA reports.
The forum is dedicated to the topic “The role of the SCO in the new conditions: combining efforts in the name of universal security, stability and prosperity”.
Opening the event, director of the Institute of Strategic and Interregional Research under the President of Uzbekistan, Eldor Aripov gave a high assessment of the SCO.
He noted that over the twenty years of the YEAR, the SCO has come a solid path of formation and development, becoming an integral element of the modern system of international relations.
today the SCO family is the world’s largest regional organization that united a huge geographical space and about half of the population of our planet, ”the representative of Ismi emphasized.
Secretary General SCO Zhang Ming, in turn, emphasized special attention on the achievements of the structure.
As the head of the SCO noted, “over more than 20 years of its development, the SCO has turned from the regional mechanism of meetings of the heads of state into the largest comprehensive international organization.”
Moreover, according to him, the “number of members of the” large SCO family is growing. ” “It is expected that at the next month the SCO summit in the city of Astana will decide on the entry of Belarus into the SCO, and thus the number of member states will reach a historical two -digit breakthrough,” said Zhang Min.
The event continues.