Yekaterinburg summit to outline priorities of SCO joint work

At the SCO summit it is planned to sum up the activity of the organization for the period since the Dushanbe summit in 2008, and to outline the priority directions of the joint work within the SCO. Expansion of international relations, regional and global policy and economy are the main list of issues on the agenda of the SCO leaders (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). The SCO leaders will hold traditional meetings in private and exchange opinions with the heads of the observer countries of the Organization. President of Afghanistan and representatives of the UN, SCO, CSTO, EurAsEc will join the plenary session. The main document to be signed is Yekaterinburg Declaration which estimates the modern international environment, points out irreversibility of the tendency towards real multi-polarity and enhancement of the meaning of regional aspect in the solution of global challenges. In this document the parties advocate fortification of legal bases in the international relations and promotion of the coordinating role of the UN globally. The parties also confirm their adherence to the principles of peacekeeping and regulation of international and regional conflicts by political and diplomatic means. The parties speak for support of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and call to active cooperation in the control and management of international finances. The joint Statement that will be passed following the summit describes the practical steps of development of the partnership within the SCO in the main directions. The six leaders will also sign a SCO Convention against terrorism that will form the legal basis of the Organization taking into account the call of the time and altering challenges and threats. The Provision on political and diplomatic measures and mechanisms of SCO responding to the situations threatening peace, security and regional stability has special importance for the coordination of positions and actions of the Organization members. Drug traffic, terrorism and organized criminality hold special place in the SCO chart of mutual actions of the SCO members and Afghanistan. The decision to grant the partner status to the Republic of Byelorus and Sri-Lanka confirms openness of the SCO. Uzbekistan will be the chair of the Organization upon completion of the Yekaterinburg summit.