Astana is ready for the SCO summit. What will the heads of state discuss?


Preparations for the summit of heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have been completed in Kazakhstan. The summit will be held in Astana on July 3-4 in the SCO+ format with the participation of 16 heads of state.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will also participate in the summit. In addition, leaders of Belarus, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Qatar, UAE and Turkmenistan will participate in the event as observers.

Also, representatives of international organizations such as UN, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, CSTO, Islamic Organization for Food Security, CIS, Eurasian Economic Commission are expected to visit Astana.

The main agenda of the summit, which will be held under the slogan "Strengthening multilateral dialogue: striving for sustainable peace and development", will be to strengthen the role of the SCO in solving current international and regional problems.

Leaders intend to focus primarily on international trade and the economy to ensure stability. Regional security, infrastructure, energy, ecology, health, tourism, education, digitization, transport and logistics issues will also be discussed at the summit.

At the end of the summit, more than 20 documents related to various fields, including the Astana Declaration, which expresses the position of the SCO on current international and regional problems and prospective studies, as well as "Strategy for the development of the SCO until 2035" and "Strategy for the development of energy cooperation of the SCO until 2030" is accepted.

One of the important topics on the agenda of the summit will be the fight against terrorism. The event will discuss the "2025-2027 cooperation program to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism" and the "2024-2029 SCO anti-narcotics strategy".

In addition, a decision on full membership of Belarus in the SCO is expected at the meeting. After this summit, the chairmanship of the SCO will be transferred to China.

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