As the Shanghai Cooperation Organization marks its 25th anniversary this year, its Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev highlighted the organization's contribution to peace, stability, and sustainable development across Eurasia and beyond in the past decades.
Nurlan Yermekbayev
In an interview with China Daily, Yermekbayev said that amid increasingly turbulent international relations, the organization's experience in building a space of trust, good-neighborliness, and joint development on the basis of equal dialogue is gaining particular relevance.
Founded in June 2001 by Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO, has expanded into a community of 27 nations, with 10 core member states.
Yermekbayev emphasized that the SCO, now the largest transregional association globally, is instrumental in developing collective approaches to counter both conventional and emerging security challenges, strengthening trust among nations, and the fulfillment of the international obligations.
