The Shanghai Cooperation Organization takes a worthy place among authoritative and influential international organizations, it has become an effective factor for sustainable development, strengthening peace, countering modern challenges and threats, ensuring security and stability at the regional and global levels.

An important condition for achieving the program goals and objectives of the organization is further expansion and deepening of cooperation in various directions. One such event was the first SCO political parties’ forum which held in China’s city Shenzhen on May 26, 2018. About 200 representatives of more than 30 parties from 18 SCO members, observers and dialogue partner countries attended the event.

Representatives agreed that they will advocate the Shanghai Spirit of “mutual trust, mutual a benefit, equality, mutual consultations, respect for cultural diversity, and the pursuit of common development,” and work to inject new impetus to the common prosperity of the region.

The holding of the forum of political parties in China is a reflection of the foreign openness policy of China to the external world and processes of economic globalization.

A delegation of political parties from Uzbekistan took an active part in the work of the forum. Its participants, noting the high level of the organization of the event, highlighted that the SCO is an effective mechanism for the development of relations between states in all spheres. At the same time, Uzbek-Chinese cooperation has a multidimensional character, the level of strategic partnership is constantly increasing and consistently developing on the basis of cooperation in the spirit of principles of friendship and mutual trust, as well as regular meetings of heads of State.

Within the framework of the forum, the delegation from Uzbekistan acquainted its participants with the progress of the current large-scale reforms in our country. Participants from Uzbekistan noted that political parties may set themselves common tasks to promote the implementation of priority and justified economic and infrastructural projects in the region that are in the interests of all SCO states.

In this regard, we will highlight the support extended by the Chairman of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping to the concept of "one belt - one way" aimed at improving existing and creating new trade routes, transport, as well as economic corridors, connecting more than 60 countries of Central Asia, Europe and Africa, which will contribute to the development of trade relations.

As a result of the forum, participants noted the importance of further development of the "Shanghai spirit" and ensuring sustainable peace in the region. The political parties will continue their efforts to form a community of the common destiny of the SCO, to strive for greater inter-party cooperation to support the multilateral economic partnership within the framework of this organization. The participants supported the initiative that the forum of political parties of the SCO would become a mechanism for creating favorable conditions for inter-party exchange and cooperation.

In general, the political parties of the country, with their work in this forum, demonstrated the desire to take an active part in the implementation of foreign policy of Uzbekistan, in the processes of further improving the activities of the SCO and its structures, the consistent development of political, trade, economic and humanitarian cooperation among the member states of the organization, strengthening regional security and stability.

  Press-service of UzLiDeP

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