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.