Agriculture ministers meet amid food-system pressures

The first meeting of heads of plant-quarantine agencies in Tashkent launched a sectoral cooperation track and prepared a document for the Samarkand summit.

The forum examined how traditional and folk medicine might be integrated into modern healthcare systems, continuing a China-proposed initiative adopted within the SCO framework.

The fifth SCO Health Ministers’ meeting in Tashkent addressed healthcare cooperation and pandemic lessons, including institutional coordination among member states.

A June Council of National Coordinators meeting in Tashkent coordinated documents for the heads-of-state, heads-of-government, and foreign-ministers meetings, while considering SCO links with other...

SCO energy ministers met in Tashkent and advanced an action plan under the member states’ energy-cooperation concept, later referenced in the heads-of-government communiqué.

The SCO foreign ministers met in Tashkent and reviewed draft summit texts, including a declaration and plans for connectivity and industrial cooperation. Iran’s accession path and Belarus’s...

The fourth meeting of SCO interior and public-security ministers took place in Tashkent as part of Uzbekistan’s chairmanship, focusing on policing and public-security cooperation.

Defence ministers meeting in Tashkent emphasized Afghanistan’s stability and expanded military-to-military cooperation. The communiqué also notes an invitation to participate in Russia’s Vostok 2022...

At Samarkand, Iran signed a memorandum setting out its obligations on the path to full membership. The step formalized an accession process but did not make Iran a full member until 2023.

The heads of state adopted the Samarkand Declaration, emphasizing sovereign equality, dialogue, connectivity, and wider cooperation. Its language presents the SCO as a multipolar institution; analysis...