Shanghai Cooperation Organization to Adopt 10-Year Development Plan in 2025, Official Says
© Sputnik . POOL / Go to the mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin at a joint photograph of the heads of delegations of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on July 4, 2024.
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BEIJING (Sputnik) - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) comprises 10 member states: Belarus, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The observer states are Afghanistan and Mongolia, while 14 others are dialogue partners.
The leaders of the SCO will adopt a development strategy at the 2025 summit that will set targets for the next 10 years and shape the bloc's future for decades to come, its secretary general told Sputnik.
"This year's Heads of State Council, which will see China wrap up its chairmanship, plans to adopt a raft of important decisions in every area of our cooperation," Nurlan Yermekbayev, of Kazakhstan, said.
Yermekbayev identified the political declaration, the joint statement on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Development Strategy as the key documents that are expected to be adopted.
"These are the political declaration, the draft document that is provisionally titled ‘the Statement on the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in World War Two,’ and the SCO Development Strategy running into 2035, a document that will outline key priorities and goals for the organization's development for decades to come," he said.