SCO Deputy Secretary General Sohail Khan pointed at great prospects for cooperation between the SCO and CIS countries, especially in the field of transport
MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will approve an energy cooperation strategy at the organization’s summit in July in Astana, SCO Deputy Secretary General Sohail Khan said at the International Economic Forum of the CIS countries.
“We have a strategy for economic cooperation until 2030, which we adopted last year in New Delhi. We are also discussing an energy strategy, which we will approve soon in Astana this year,” he said.
The Deputy Secretary General also pointed at great prospects for cooperation between the SCO and CIS countries, especially in the field of transport.
“China, Russia, as well as Kazakhstan already have a fairly developed infrastructure in the field of all types of transport since the times of the Soviet Union and after the Soviet period, but it can still be improved, connected with each other, as well as with other SCO members such as Iran, India and Pakistan,” Khan added.
Earlier, the special representative of the Russian President for SCO affairs, Bakhtiyor Khakimov, said that the next summit of the organization will be held on July 3-4 in Astana.
In 2023-2024, Kazakhstan chairs the SCO. The organization was founded on June 15, 2001 in Shanghai. Initially it consisted of six countries – Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan joined the SCO in 2017, Iran – in 2023. The accession of Belarus to SCO is soon to be completed.
Source: Tass
