The current meeting of the council sums up all the preparatory work and defines the documents that would be included in the agenda of the upcoming SCO summit. Signing of these documents will serve to further development of the organization, President Islam Karimov said.

At the meeting in Oqsaroy, preparation to the SCO Heads of States Council session, scheduled for 10-11 June in Tashkent, was considered. Besides, important issues of strengthening regional security were also discussed, UzA reported.

The President of Uzbekistan drew the attention to the importance of optimization and improvement of mechanisms of adopting decisions by various structures of the SCO.

The meeting participants, in their turn, stressed the importance of the efforts of Uzbekistan in increasing the SCO authority and expansion of economic cooperation in the region.

The active position of Uzbekistan in defining the SCO development strategy and on a wide range of modern world policy issues is giving positive results, the guests said.

One of the important results of Uzbekistan’s activity during its chairmanship in the SCO was unanimous adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution on cooperation between the UN and the SCO, as well as signing of a Joint declaration on cooperation between the UN and SCO secretariats. These documents defined the legal bases and prospects of the two organizations’ practical interaction.

The heads of the SCO foreign ministries’ delegations sincerely thanked President of Uzbekistan for warm reception and expressed confidence that the upcoming SCO summit in Tashkent would be held on the highest level.