ALMA-ATA, 17 sep. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, speaking at the SCO summit, said that the member countries of the organization united by the «Shanghai spirit» deny the right of the strong and the imposition of artificial standards from the outside. Tokayev noted that the accession of India and Pakistan strengthened the SCO and gave its activities a genuine trans-Eurasian character, and the decision to begin the procedure for admitting Iran to full membership and granting the status of partners for the dialogue to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, give the organization a new important dimension — the Middle East.
Putin will take part in the CSTO and SCO summit in Dushanbe via video link «All this confirms the relevance and uniqueness of the Shanghai spirit of cooperation. This is the collective spirit of peoples who deny the right to the strong, advocate equal cooperation and effective interaction on all pressing issues of the global agenda,» he noted. According to Tokayev, «this spirit of unity unites countries that adhere to different development models and different views on the main issues of the world order.» their way of life and mentality, «the head of Kazakhstan added. The SCO is an international organization founded in 2001 by the leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The SCO observer countries are Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia, the partner countries are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Turkey and Sri Lanka. In 2021, the organization is chaired by Tajikistan. Following the meeting, it is planned to adopt the anniversary Dushanbe declaration and the signing of more than 30 documents related to the life of the organization. In addition, the heads of state are expected to make decisions on launching the procedure for admitting Iran as a full-fledged SCO member state and granting the status of a dialogue partner to Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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