Samarkand (Uzbekistan) Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Sep 13 : The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is expected to grow at its next summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand the president of the host nation Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced.
The SCO is the largest regional bloc in the world, with eight members that include Russia, China and India, RT reported.
In an article posted via his official website, Mirziyoyev declared his confidence that the September 15-16, will “mark the beginning of the next stage” in the organisation’s history.
“The number of members of the SCO will increase, and its future plans will be developed and this is a significant symbolic event,” the president of the Central Asian nation wrote, RT reported.
Eight full members are currently part of the group.India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.
Two countries two – Iran and Belarus are in the process of joining the SCO and are granted observer status together with Afghanistan as well as Mongolia.
Mirziyoyev believes that the Samarkand gathering will be remembered as its launch of “a new multi-faceted dialogue”.
In a world afflicted by the effects of a “deep crisis of trust” and geopolitical conflict The SCO should be “a center of attraction that is not divided, in the name of peace and cooperation, as well as progress”, he stated.
One of the main objectives of the SCO is to increase the SCO’s collaboration with Afghanistan and, Mirziyoyev believes, “should explore an entirely new peace task of linking Central and South Asia”.
The SCO comprises 40 percent of the population of the globe as well as more than 30 percent of the world’s GDP.
In September 2021 in September 2021, the SCO had begun technical procedures for the admission of Iran.Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Special Representative for SCO Relations, Bakhtiyor Khkimov was at the time stating that the process of gaining membership would take a long length of time.
Belarus was the most recent nation to be the latest to seek SCO membership.
The bid was made public by Khakimov in June of this year, RT reported.
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