On June 29 at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Moscow venue of the Valdai Discussion Club will host a discussion entitled “The SCO Turns 25: Achievements, Challenges, and Looking Ahead”.
This year, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) marks its twenty-fifth anniversary. The rapidly changing international environment requires the Organisation to adapt to new realities. The SCO is gradually consolidating its position in both the political and economic spheres. This is demonstrated by the decision to establish the SCO Development Bank, adopted at the Tianjin Summit.
At the same time, a number of challenges remain: the absence of a common position on certain major international crises, frictions between India and China, tensions between India and Pakistan, the lack of a shared financial infrastructure, and the absence of common security mechanisms. The SCO is developing more slowly than many would wish, but it continues to move forward steadily, without backsliding.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was founded in 2001 by the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Subsequently, the membership was extended to India, Pakistan, Iran, and Belarus. Over the past 25 years, the SCO has evolved into a diplomatic forum that shapes Eurasian countries’ approaches to the most important international issues. Its core principles include a commitment to multipolarity, equal and indivisible security, as well as respect for the diversity of political and economic systems.
Can the SCO establish a framework for financial, economic, and political cooperation that would function as an alternative to established structures? What needs to be done to achieve this? How do relations between SCO member states and the United States and its allies affect the Organisation's development? What will be on the agenda of the upcoming summit in Bishkek? These and other questions will be addressed by participants in the Valdai Club's discussion.
Speakers:
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Shumkarbek Adilbek uulu, Director of the National Institute for Strategic Initiatives under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic (NISI)
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Yang Cheng, Executive Dean of the Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies at Shanghai International Studies University
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Yulia Nikitina, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; Associate professor, School of World Political Processes, MGIMO University
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Sanzhar Valiev, Director of the Center for Foreign Policy Studies and International Initiatives
Moderator:
- Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club
Working languages: Russian, English
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