Kazakhstan’s Capital city, Astana, Gears up to Host Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on July 3-4,2024
By: Muhammad Arif
Astana: Kazakhstan’s Capital city, Astana is gearing up to host the summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held on July 3-4, 2024.
“The work to prepare for the next high-level meeting, the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO members, which will take place on July 3-4 in Astana, is entering the home stretch”, the special representative of the Russian President for SCO affairs, Bakhtiyor Khakimov told in a news briefing.
The agenda of meeting of SCO Heads of States Council includes exchanging views on the international and regional agendas, security issues and the development of political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation within the SCO.
Kazakhstan is chairing the SCO from July 2023 to July 2024.
The Republic of Belarus would officially become member state of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the Astana Summit to be held to be held on July 3-4, 2024, said SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming while meeting with Sergei Kovalchuk, Minister of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus
Currently, the SCO member countries includes: The Republic of India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a permanent intergovernmental international organization and it was established on June 15, 2001 in Shanghai (PRC) by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan. Its predecessor was the mechanism of the Shanghai Five.
