On May 22-23, 2023, with the direct support of the Founder of Peace and National Unity — the Leader of the Nation, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, his excellency Emomali Rahmon, the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the SCO Secretariat, under the chairmanship of the Center for Strategic Research under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, will be held the XVIII meeting of the Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The SCO Forum is a multilateral, public consultation and expert mechanism formed to promote and scientifically support the activities of the SCO, develop cooperation between research centers of the SCO member states, conduct joint research on topical issues of the Organization’s terms of reference, clarify the tasks and principles of the SCO activities, expand its links with the scientific and public circles, as well as encouraging exchanges of views between scientists and experts in the fields of politics, security, economics, ecology, new technologies, humanitarian and other fields.
The forum was established in 2006. The Forum consists of one authoritative scientific institution from each SCO member states, which are determined in accordance with their internal procedures. These institutions have the status of the National Research Center of the SCO. From the Republic of Tajikistan, the Center for Strategic Research has the status of the national research center of the SCO Forum.
Since the founding of the Forum until today, 17 meetings have been held under the chairmanship of the member countries of the organization. Previously, the Republic of Tajikistan chaired the Forum twice in 2010 and 2016 and held the 5th and 11th meetings of the forum at a high international level. The next meeting is the third period of the chairmanship of Tajikistan at the Forum.
It should be noted that the chairmanship of the SCO forum in 2022 passed from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry to the Tajik side.
The Forum will be attended by heads and specialists of research centers and scientific-analytical institutions of the member states, observer states, SCO dialogue partners, the leadership of the SCO Secretariat, representatives of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure and leading domestic experts.
During the meeting, is planned a wide exchange of views on the following agenda:
- SCO in the new global realities: current state, potential of the “SCO family”, prospects for the development of the organization;
- Strategic guidelines for the SCO in the context of the formation of a multipolar world;
- SCO security policy in the face of changing forms, nature, geography and scale of traditional challenges and threats;
- Information and network challenges: measurement of threats, national counteraction practices and mechanisms for the exchange of experience within the framework of the SCO;
- New trends in the cooperation of the SCO states in the new world order: prospects for inclusive economic, innovative, technological development;
- Migration processes in the area of responsibility of the SCO: state, main vectors and problems of their regulation;
- Humanitarian cooperation within the framework of the SCO: achievements, place and role of science, education and culture in the deepening of integration processes;
- Prospects and achievement of economic unity within the framework of the SCO: an interbank association, a single financial system, a single transport network and a single system for monitoring cargo flows;
- Formation of new areas of cooperation within the framework of the SCO: on the development of the «green» economy, «green» energy, environmental protection and measures to prevent climate change.
Address: National Library of Tajikistan, 2 nd floor;
Time: 09:00;
Language: Russian, Chinese, English;
Contacts: 221-32-26; 221-41-29;
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