Yuri Yarmolinsky, BISR Analyst, Head of the SCO and BRICS Research Center
On October 16, 2024, the Republic of Belarusin for the first time participated in the 23rd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government in Islamabad at the level of Prime ...
In July, Belarus became the tenth member of the SCO (along with India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), having methodically and responsibly completed almost 15 years of accession. In 2023, the member states accounted for 70.4% of the tot...
The Astana SCO summit was marked by a curious trend of shifting emphasis to the economy. Of the 25 signed cooperation documents, six relate to this area in one way or another. The main ones include decisions on approving the Action Plan to implement the Economic Development Strategy for...
Report at the XIX meeting of the SCO Forum, Tashkent, June 5-6, 2024
Dear colleagues! Friends!
I am very happy to welcome the participants of the XIX meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Forum.
I wish to thank with all my heart our friends from Uzbekistan for the ki...
Belarus has been systematically working on acceding the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for several years and is expecting to become its member in 2024. The State takes an active part in all main activities of the organization: political and diplomatic, trade and economic, cultu...
Belarus will be the first fully European state to become a full member of the SCO. This came to attention of Yuri Yarmolinsky, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, during the round table "The uniting potential of the SCO in an emerging multipolar world", which was ...
The basic priority of Belarus' adjusted foreign policy is to join the SCO and BRICS, whose creative role in the formation of harmonious and fair international relations is multiplying, which is publicly admitted not only by supporters, but also by opponents. The SCO and BRICS, with thei...
One of the priorities of presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in 2023 was the systematic build-up of its institutional capacity in the information and analytical sphere.
Setting goals and objectives
In recent years, the Belarusian...
Amid the recent SCO summit, the mass media were filled with enthusiastic reviews including in the light of Belarus receiving the status of a member state of this organization in 2024. Without questioning the importance of this event and its outcome, as well as the importance of the SCO ...
"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war") – Cornelius Nepos
Amid noticeable enhancement of multi-format global peacekeeping initiatives in Afghanistan, broad efforts of regional players, such as Uzbekistan, on this vector, and signs of a certain relaxation in K...