A sculpture featuring the logo of the SCO is seen in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province. Photo: VCG
The international cooperation that is in the interest of everyone is impossible without multilateral institutions. Despite certain shortcomings, they continue to serve as the most important agents of interaction between countries - at the regional and global levels. International and regional organizations help countries to overcome differences and strengthen mutual understanding, develop political and economic cooperation, expand trade, and stimulate cultural and humanitarian exchanges. These are the goals and objectives that are being pursued by one of the youngest multilateral institutions - the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. In fact, it is a unique interstate structure that has managed to unite countries with different cultural and civilizational codes, their own foreign policy guidelines, and models of national development. In a relatively short historical period, the SCO has come a long way, becoming an integral element of the modern global political and economic world order. Today, the SCO family is the world's largest regional organization, which has united a huge geographical space and about a half of the population of our planet. The basis for SCO's international attractiveness is its non-bloc status, openness, not negatively targeting third countries or other international organizations, equality and respect for the sovereignty of all participants, refusal to interfere in internal affairs, as well as prevention of political confrontation and unhealthy rivalry. The SCO's success concept is the promotion of multifaceted cooperation through ensuring regional security. In fact, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has been called upon to become a pole of attraction without dividing lines, in the name of peace, cooperation, and progress.Therefore, the number of states that are ready to cooperate with the SCO is growing every year, and this is especially noticeable in the context of the transformation of the modern system of international and regional relations.
The economic value of the SCO is enhanced by the self-sufficiency of its space, where there are dynamically developing economies in the world with huge human, intellectual, and technological potential, and the existence of large volumes of unused natural resources.
Today, the total GDP of the SCO member states has reached about a quarter of the global figure. This is already a very solid contribution to global sustainable development from a regional organization that has just crossed its 20-year threshold. In a world with new challenges and opportunities, the SCO has excellent prospects for transformation and growth, not only through quantitative replenishment, but also through the opening of new strategic vectors. These are transport and connectivity, energy, food and environmental security, innovations, digital transformation, and green economy. Uzbekistan's chairmanship: towards common success through joint development Accepting the responsible mission of the Chairmanship of the SCO, the Republic of Uzbekistan has relied on the strategy of advancing the development of the Organization by opening up new horizons for cooperation and launching usage of untapped reserves that each of its members has. Our slogan is "The SCO is strong if each of us is strong." Implementing this, we have made serious efforts to make the Organization even stronger from the inside and more attractive from the outside to our international partners. At the platforms of more than 80 major events held during the year, a comprehensive agenda was formed for the SCO - starting from the issues of further expanding cooperation in security, strengthening transport and economic connectivity, and positioning the Organization in the international arena, up to the search for new ways and points for development. All these promising directions of cooperation for the SCO at this new stage of its historical development are reflected in more than 30 conceptual programs, agreements, and decisions prepared during our leadership tenure. What's more, Uzbekistan's chairmanship in the SCO is a logical continuation of an active and open foreign policy course that has been pursued by our country in the last six years. This policy is embodied, above all, in Central Asia, the geographical core of the SCO, where positive and irreversible processes of strengthening good-neighborliness and cooperation are now taking place. All SCO member states are our closest neighbors, friends, and strategic partners. The chairmanship has given us a good opportunity to further strengthen multilateral collaboration and expand bilateral cooperation with each of them, as well as setting new targets for even deeper partnership. I am full of confidence that it is important and necessary for the SCO to share its success story with Afghanistan. This country is an integral part of the larger SCO space. The Afghan people need good neighbors and their support now more than ever. It is our moral obligation to extend a helping hand, to offer them effective ways of overcoming the years-long crisis by promoting socioeconomic growth in the country and its integration into regional and global development processes. Afghanistan has, for centuries, played the role of a buffer in the historical confrontations of global and regional powers, and should try a new peaceful mission of connecting Central and South Asia. The construction of the trans-Afghan corridor could become a symbol of such mutually beneficial inter-regional cooperation. It is also important to understand that by implementing joint infrastructure projects such as the Termez - Mazar-i-Sharif - Kabul - Peshawar railroad, we are not just solving socioeconomic, transportion, and communication problems, but also making a significant contribution to ensuring regional security. By bringing our positions closer to each other, together we can develop a new SCO agenda for a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous Afghanistan. Only in this way can we create a truly stable and sustainable SCO space with indivisible security. 'Samarkand Spirit' - the embodiment of cooperation, mutual understanding and friendshipWe are full of optimism and are convinced that the decisions of the upcoming summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will make a feasible contribution to strengthening the dialogue, mutual understanding, and cooperation both at the regional level and on a global scale.
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