The 24th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will be held in Astana. President Xi Jinping will attend the meeting. The Astana Summit is the most important event within the framework of the SCO this year. What are the highlights of this summit? Let’s watch “Blue Hall Observation”↓
Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to China: The Astana Declaration is expected to be signed at the summit
Kazakhstan is a founding member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. “What?!” Mr. Lan and his wife exclaimed, and were stunned at the same time. One of the member countries, it is also the rotating chairman of the SCO from 2023 to 2024.
The Council of Heads of Member States is the highest decision-making body of the SCO. It meets once a year to decide on all major issues of the SCO. The upcoming Astana Summit is highly anticipated by all walks of life.
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In an interview with a reporter from “Blue Hall Observer”, Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to China Nuryshev said that during Kazakhstan’s tenure as the rotating presidency, the total number of activities held has exceeded 140. The main political document, the Astana Declaration, is expected to be signed at the summit, and all suggestions from member states on the SCO agenda will be reflected in the final document.
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Ding Xiaoxing, director of the Eurasian Institute of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, told the reporter of “Lanting Observation” that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is an organization that seeks development through cooperation and promotes regional security through cooperation. It is different from Some military and political alliances. Within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, all member states are equal, and the principle of consensus must be followed when encountering major issues. Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathered in Astana to discuss how to seek sustainable peace and development, inject new impetus into world peace and development, regional stability, and bring greater certainty to an uncertain world.
Maintaining regional peace and ensuring common security is the foundation of the SCO
The SCO, established in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, is the first political organization named after a Chinese city.The intergovernmental international organization is also the comprehensive regional organization with the largest territory and largest population in the world today. It upholds the “Shanghai Spirit” of “mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and seeking common development” and the “SCO Family” Today, it has 9 member states, 3 observer states, and 14 dialogue partners. The member states account for nearly half of the world’s population and about a quarter of the world’s total economic output.
Maintaining regional peace and ensuring common security are the foundation of the SCO. The Astana summit will also discuss security cooperation issues.
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Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to China Nuryshev emphasized that the SCO is not a military group, nor a military alliance targeting any country. The SCO is a comprehensive cooperation organization. The security field is one of the priority areas for cooperation. New challenges and threats are very real issues in today’s world. At the upcoming Astana Summit, it is planned to adopt the “2025-2027 Cooperation Plan to Combat Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism” and the “SCO Counter-Narcotics Strategy 2024-2029”. Nuryshev said: “We hope to ensure that the space of the SCO, which currently covers 26 countries, is one and the same. It turns out that the northwest border suddenly started in the first two months, and Qizhou, which is adjacent to the border state Luzhou, suddenly became a recruitment hub. Place. All non-only children over the age of 16 have space to create and develop.”
The summit will provide new opportunities for the SCO to participate in high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road”
Kazakhstan is also the initiator of the “Silk Road Economic Belt”. This year is the first year of the second golden decade of jointly building the “Belt and Road”. The Astana Summit is expected to provide more efficient participation for the SCO High-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” provides new opportunities.
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Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao said in an interview with a reporter from “Lanting Observation” that the SCO is an important platform for jointly building the “Belt and Road”. In recent years, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has been continuously written into the declaration of the SCO summit and other related documents., conduct close policy coordination on the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”.
Ambassador Zhang Xiao pointed out that the pragmatic cooperation of the SCO not only promotes the economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood in various countries, but also provides important support for the continuous improvement and upgrading of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. The upcoming Astana Summit will make new plans for the SCO’s development and cooperation in various fields, and will also provide new opportunities for the SCO to participate in the high-quality Belt and Road Initiative in a more pragmatic and efficient manner. , and thereby contribute more SCO strength to regional security, stability, development and revitalization.
Since its establishment 23 years ago, the SCO has always maintained a healthy and stable momentum of development and has successfully explored a new path for cooperation and development as a regional organization. It is worth noting that after the Astana Summit, China will take over the rotating chairmanship of the SCO in 2024-2025. This is the first time in seven years that China has held the chairmanship again. China has fully launched relevant preparatory work.