On September 16, the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization discussed the Organization’s activity and prospects that resulted in signing the final document of the event - the Samarkand Declaration.
The participants adopted a total of 44 documents - agreements, concepts, programs and other decisions which is a record indicator in the organisation's history. Such as:
- On the comprehensive action plan for the implementation of the provisions of the agreement on long-term good neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation of the SCO member states in 2023-2027;
- On the concept of the SCO member states on the development of interdependence and the creation of effective transport corridors;
- On the regulation on the honorary title of "Ambassador of Good Will of the SCO";
- On the "roadmap" for gradually increasing the share of national currencies in mutual settlements of SCO member states;
- On the signing of the memorandum on the obligations of Iran to obtain the status of a member state of the SCO;
- On starting the process of admitting the Republic of Belarus to the SCO membership;
- On granting the status of a dialogue partner of the SCO to the Republic of Maldives, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and Kuwait;
- On declaring the city of Varanasi (India) as the tourism and cultural capital of the SCO in 2022-2023;
- On signing a memorandum between the SCO Secretariat and the UN (UNESCO) on Education, Science and Culture;
- Reports of the SCO General Secretary on the organization's last year's activity and the 2021 activity of the Council of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure;
- On cancelling the validity of the decisions of the SCO Council of Heads of State;
Decisions were made to improve the activities of the SCO.
- on response actions to climate change;
- on ensuring reliable, stable and diversified supply chains;
- on ensuring global food security;
- statements on ensuring energy security were accepted.
In addition, the following documents were signed during the event:
- Memorandum on obligations of Iran to obtain the status of a member state of the SCO;
- Agreement on cooperation in the field of tourism between the governments of the SCO member states;
- Fundamentals of partnership between SCO member states in the field of trade in services;
- Memorandum on cooperation between the competent bodies of the SCO countries in the field of museum work;
- Agreement on cooperation between the competent bodies of the SCO countries in the field of plant quarantine;
- Cooperation program of the SCO countries in the field of using renewable energy sources;
- The infrastructural development program of SCO countries;
- Program for the promotion of industrial cooperation between business circles of SCO countries;
- SCO program for the development of digital literacy;
- Cooperation program of the SCO member states on the development of artificial intelligence;
- "roadmap" on cooperation between the medical organizations of the SCO member states in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases;
- Action plan for scientific and technical cooperation in priority directions between SCO member states (in 2022-2025);
- Joint action plan for the development of intra-regional trade in the SCO;
- Concept of cooperation of SCO countries in the field of telemedicine;
- Concept of cooperation of SCO countries in the field of "smart" agriculture and introduction of agro-innovations;
- Memorandum between the secretariats of the SCO and the League of Arab States;
- Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretariat of the SCO and the United Nations (UNESCO) on Education, Science and Culture;
- A memorandum of understanding and other documents were signed between the Secretariat of the SCO and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESKATO).
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