Go to the media bankMOSCOW, Sep 13 Declaration on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and Uzbekistan to be signed following the results of the talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand, said Yury Ushakov, Assistant to the Head of State for International Affairs. these negotiations, the signing of the Declaration on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and Uzbekistan,» he told reporters. The SCO is an international organization founded in 2001. India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan participate in it. Observer countries — Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia, partner countries — Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Turkey and Sri Lanka. At the SCO summit in Dushanbe in September 2021, the procedure for admitting Iran to the organization and granting the status of a dialogue partner to Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia was launched. This year, Belarus officially applied to join the SCO as a full member. Karimova in Moscow
