Uzbekistan handed over the rotating presidency of the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to India on Friday in Samarkand.
“As a result #SCOSamarkandSummit, India will host next SCO summit as a chairman of Organisation in 2023. We will do our best to assist India, our strategic partner, in the implementation of this responsible mission,” Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov tweeted.
As a result #SCOSamarkandSummit, India will host next SCO summit as a chairman of Organization in 2023.We will do our best to assist India, our strategic partner, in the implementation of this responsible mission.@MEAIndia
— Vladimir Norov (@VladimirNorov) September 16, 2022
Notably, this is the first in-person SCO Summit after the Covid pandemic hit the world.
The SCO currently comprises eight Member States; China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, four Observer States interested in acceding to full membership; Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia, and six “Dialogue Partners” Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey.
The Shanghai Five, formed in 1996, became the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2001 with the inclusion of Uzbekistan. With India and Pakistan entering the grouping in 2017 and the decision to admit Tehran as a full member in 2021, SCO became one of the largest multilateral organizations, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the global GDP and 40 percent of the world’s population.
SCO has potential in various new sectors, wherein all the member-states could find converging interests.
India has already pushed hard for cooperation in Startups and Innovation, Science and Technology and Traditional Medicine.
From the time of its full membership, India made sincere efforts to encourage peace, prosperity, and stability of the whole Eurasian region in general and SCO member countries in particular.
(With Agency Inputs)
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