SCO: International forum capable of solving regional problems
On September 15-16 of this year, the city of Samarkand will host a meeting of the Council of Heads of state of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This event will be the first face-to-face meeting of SCO leaders since 2019 and will end the presidency of Uzbekistan in the organization.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional security and Economic Cooperation Organization. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a prestigious international organization that has been making a significant contribution to effectively solving the most pressing problems of the rapidly changing current time, ensuring security and sustainable development.
The organization's economic cooperation will develop on the basis of cooperation on the development of transport infrastructure, development of natural, mineral raw materials reserves, efficient use of water energy reserves, ecology and other issues. Over the past 20 years, the SCO has established itself as an influential mechanism for multilateral cooperation in a situation where drastic changes are taking place in the regional and international situation. In a short period, the organization acquired a significant contractual and legal base, was formed as a full-fledged institutional structure, a number of structural bodies were created and their stable activities were established. The total space of the organization occupies 60% of the territory of Eurasia. The gross domestic product of SCO member states is about 23% of the world gross domestic product. Uzbekistan, as an equal member of such a prestigious organization, pays great attention to strengthening its interaction with it.
During the presidency of Uzbekistan, the main attention was paid to the most important priorities of cooperation within the organization, such as strengthening trade and economic relations, promotion of industrial cooperation, expansion of transport and communication interconnection, digital transformation and "green" economy, strengthening the international prestige of SCO. The activities of our country within the SCO in recent years can be expressed in the fact that the principles of initiative and pragmatism are becoming a priority. Over the past period, the SCO has established itself as an effective mechanism and firmly established itself from the world Policy scene as an international forum capable of solving a whole set of regional problems, including a wide range of issues from politics and security to economic and social cooperation. Within the framework of the SCO, all our proposals and initiatives to expand multilateral cooperation that meets our national interests fully correspond to the priorities of strengthening stability and cooperation in the region.
