BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 12. Pattern presents an article
by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat
Mirziyoyev.
Uzbekistan’s chairmanship within the SCO has fallen on a dynamic
interval, fraught with numerous occasions and tendencies – the interval of the
«historic rift», when one period involves an finish and one other begins
– so far unpredictable and unknown.
The trendy system of worldwide cooperation, primarily based on the
common ideas and norms, begins to falter. One of many major
causes for this can be a deep disaster of belief on the international stage,
which, in flip, provokes a geopolitical confrontation and the danger
of reviving the bloc pondering stereotypes. This technique of mutual
alienation complicates the return of the world economic system to its
former course of growth and the restoration of worldwide provide
chains.
The continuing armed conflicts in several components of the world
destabilize commerce and funding flows, exacerbate the issues of
guaranteeing meals and vitality safety.
Together with this, international local weather shocks, rising shortage of
pure and water sources, decline in biodiversity, unfold of
harmful infectious ailments have uncovered the vulnerability of our
societies as by no means earlier than. They result in destruction of existential
widespread items, threatening the premise of individuals’s life and decreasing
sources of revenue.
In these circumstances, it’s apparent that no nation alone can
hope to keep away from or deal with these international dangers and challenges.
There is just one method out of the harmful spiral of issues in
an interconnected world the place all of us reside in the present day – by way of a
constructive dialogue and multilateral cooperation primarily based on
consideration and respect to the pursuits of everybody. It’s
precisely on the time of disaster, when all of the international locations – whether or not
they’re giant, medium or small by measurement – should put apart their
slender pursuits and give attention to such mutual interplay, unite and
multiply the widespread efforts and potentialities to counter the
threats and challenges to peace, safety and sustainable
growth which might be associated to every of us.
The efficient worldwide cooperation makes the world extra
steady, predictable and affluent. That is essentially the most viable,
accessible and closest solution to fixing widespread issues of our time
in addition to a common insurance coverage coverage towards the longer term
challenges and shocks.
A Mannequin for Profitable Regional Cooperation
The worldwide cooperation that lays within the curiosity of
everyone seems to be not possible with out multilateral establishments. Regardless of
the sure shortcomings, they proceed to function essentially the most
essential brokers of interplay between the international locations – on the
regional and international ranges. The worldwide and regional
organizations assist international locations to beat the variations and
strengthen mutual understanding, to develop political and financial
cooperation, to increase commerce and stimulate cultural and
humanitarian exchanges.
These are the targets and aims which might be pursued by one in all
the youngest multilateral establishments – the Shanghai Cooperation
Group (SCO). In truth, it’s a distinctive interstate construction
that has managed to unite international locations
with totally different cultural and civilizational codes, their very own
overseas coverage tips and fashions of nationwide growth. In a
comparatively quick historic interval, the SCO has come a great distance,
changing into an integral ingredient of the fashionable international political and
financial world order.
Right this moment, the SCO household is the world’s largest regional
group, which has united an enormous geographical area and about
a half of the inhabitants of our planet.
The premise for the SCO’s worldwide attractiveness is its
non-bloc standing, openness, non-targeting towards third international locations or
the worldwide organizations, equality and respect for the
sovereignty of all individuals, refusal to intrude within the
inner affairs, in addition to prevention of political confrontation
and unhealthy rivalry.
The SCO’s success idea is the promotion of multifaceted
cooperation by way of guaranteeing regional safety.
In truth, the Shanghai Cooperation Group is known as upon to
turn out to be a pole of attraction with out dividing strains, within the identify of
peace, cooperation and progress.
Subsequently, the variety of states which might be able to cooperate with
the SCO is rising yearly, and that is particularly noticeable in
the context of the transformation of the fashionable system of
worldwide and regional relations.
The financial worth of the SCO is enhanced by the
self-sufficiency of its area, the place there are dynamically
creating economies of the world with big human, mental and
technological potential, and the existence of enormous volumes of
unused pure sources.
Right this moment, the overall GDP of the SCO member states has reached about
1 / 4 of the worldwide determine. That is already a really strong
contribution to the worldwide sustainable growth from a regional
group that has simply crossed its 20-year threshold.
In a world with the brand new challenges and alternatives, the SCO
has wonderful prospects for transformation and development, not solely
by way of quantitative replenishment, but in addition by way of the opening of
new strategic vectors. These are transport and connectivity,
vitality, meals and environmental safety, improvements, digital
transformation and inexperienced economic system.
Uzbekistan’s Chairmanship: in the direction of Frequent Success
by way of Joint Improvement
Accepting accountable mission of Chairmanship within the SCO, the
Republic of Uzbekistan has relied on the technique of advancing the
growth of the Group by opening up new horizons for
cooperation and launching utilization of untapped reserves that every of
its members has.
Our slogan is «The SCO is robust if every of us is
sturdy». Implementing this, we have now made severe efforts
to make the Group even stronger from the within and extra
engaging from the skin to our worldwide companions.
On the platforms of greater than eighty main occasions held throughout
the 12 months, a complete agenda was shaped for the SCO – beginning
from the problems of additional increasing cooperation within the safety,
strengthening transport and financial connectivity and positioning
the Group within the worldwide area as much as the seek for
new methods and factors for growth.
All these promising instructions of cooperation for the SCO on the
new stage of its historic growth are mirrored in additional than
thirty conceptual packages, agreements and choices ready
throughout our chairmanship interval.
I’d say much more. Uzbekistan’s chairmanship within the SCO is a
logical continuation of an lively and open overseas coverage course
that has been pursued by our nation within the final six years. This
coverage is embodied, above all, in Central Asia, the geographical
core of SCO, the place constructive and irreversible processes of
strengthening good-neighborliness and cooperation at the moment are taking
place.
All SCO member states are our closest neighbors, associates and
strategic companions.
The Chairmanship has given us an excellent alternative to additional
strengthen multilateral collaboration and increase bilateral
cooperation with every of them, in addition to set new targets for even
deeper partnership.
I’m filled with confidence that it will be significant and vital for
the SCO to share its success story with Afghanistan. This nation
is an integral a part of the bigger SCO area. The Afghan folks want
good neighbors and their assist now greater than ever. It’s our
ethical obligation to increase a serving to hand, to supply them efficient
methods of overcoming the years-long disaster by selling
socio-economic development of the nation, its integration into regional
and international growth processes.
Afghanistan that has performed for hundreds of years the position of a buffer
within the historic confrontations of worldwide and regional powers,
ought to strive on a brand new peaceable mission of connecting Central and
South Asia.
The development of the trans-Afghan hall may turn out to be a
image of such mutually helpful inter-regional cooperation. It
can also be essential to grasp that by implementing joint
infrastructure tasks such because the Termez – Mazar-i-Sharif – Kabul
– Peshawar railroad we’re not simply fixing socio-economic,
transport and communication issues, but in addition making a major
contribution to making sure regional safety.
By bringing our positions nearer to one another, collectively we will
develop a brand new SCO agenda for a extra peaceable, steady and affluent
Afghanistan. Solely on this method can we create a really steady and
sustainable SCO area with an indivisible safety.
«Samarkand Spirit» – the Embodiment of Cooperation,
Mutual Understanding and Friendship
After a three-year pandemic pause that has induced severe
disruption in commerce, financial and industrial ties, the international locations
and peoples of the SCO want to speak instantly.
The traditional metropolis of Samarkand, the jewel of the Nice Silk Highway,
is able to welcome the leaders of fourteen international locations with new
breakthrough proposals and initiatives designed to serve for good
and prosperity of the SCO and every of its members.
There isn’t any doubt that this legendary metropolis will open one other
chapter of the SCO success story. Wonderful historic heritage of
Samarkand will contribute to this.
For a lot of centuries, this metropolis has been threading collectively
international locations from Europe to China, merging North and South, East and
West right into a single node.
Traditionally Samarkand has been a melting pot of concepts and
information, that was “cooking” a standard purpose of residing higher, being
extra profitable and changing into happier. And all people has recognized that
the pleasant neighbors are half of your wealth, you your self are a
blessing for them, as a result of you already know that cooperation, commerce,
oeuvre, science, artwork and the most effective concepts do good, enrich and produce
nations collectively.
These distinctive qualities of Samarkand, which in the present day has a contemporary
and dynamically creating infrastructure, turning it into essentially the most
appropriate and demanded platform for joint discussions, trying to find
vital responses to regional and international challenges.
The integrity and interconnectivity of mankind are such that
most challenges require joint work not solely on the regional stage,
but in addition on the international area.
Counting on the expertise of our a few years of joint work, we
are assured that the Samarkand SCO summit will set an instance of
how we will launch a brand new, inclusive dialogue primarily based on the ideas
of mutual respect, belief and constructive cooperation for
the sake of widespread safety and prosperity.
Samarkand can turn out to be the platform that may unite and reconcile
states with totally different overseas coverage priorities.
Traditionally, the world seemed upon from Samarkand has
been seen as single and indivisible, moderately than fragmented. This
is certainly the essence of the distinctive phenomenon of the «Samarkand
spirit», which might function the premise for a essentially new
format of worldwide interplay, together with throughout the Shanghai
Cooperation Group.
The «Samarkand spirit» is designed to naturally
complement the very «Shanghai spirit», due to which greater than 20
years in the past our international locations determined to create a brand new and eagerly sought
group.
Subsequently, we’re assured that in Samarkand we will witness
the delivery of a brand new stage within the lifetime of SCO – the variety of its
members will develop, and its future agenda can be shaped, and this
is extremely symbolic.
We’re filled with optimism and are satisfied that the choices of
the upcoming summit of Shanghai Cooperation Group will make
a possible contribution to strengthening the dialogue, mutual
understanding and cooperation each on the regional stage and on a
international scale.