Tashkent hosts the 19th Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Forum, which is chaired by the Uzbek side. The forum is dedicated to “The role of the SCO in the new conditions: joining forces for the sake of universal security, stability, and prosperity”.

Opening the event, the Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Eldor Aripov highly appreciated the activities of the SCO. It was noted that over the past twenty years, the SCO has passed a solid path of formation and development, becoming an integral element of the modern system of international relations.

“At present, the SCO family is the largest regional organization in the world, which has united a huge geographical area and about half of the population of our planet”, the ISRS representative noted.

G.Khonnazarov, UzA