Within the visit, the SCO Secretary-General Dmitry Mezentsev will hold negotiations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and other governmental structures of Uzbekistan. He will attend the events of the SCO Regional Anti-terrorism structure.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a Eurasian security organisation which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.