The head of state expressed satisfaction with the high level of interaction achieved in such areas of SCO activity as elaboration and implementation of complex multilateral actions to provide for regional security. The role of national security councils of this reputable international organization’s member countries is invaluable in joint coordination of those measures, UzA reported.

While articulating on the burgeoning credibility and significance of SCO efforts in the current circumstances, President Islam Karimov stressed its growing position in addressing regional and global security issues, combating international terrorism, separatism and extremism, drug trafficking and other challenges and threats in the strategically important Central Asian region.

Initiated by the leadership of our republic back in 2004, the institution of meetings by secretaries of SCO participating nations’ security councils has become a vital mechanism in working out concerted measures and efforts to ensure peace and stability in the regional context.

As part of activities in connection with the forthcoming SCO summit scheduled for the first half of this June in Tashkent, prospects for raising the effectiveness of decision-making mechanisms by various divisions of the Organization have been discussed. Participants of the event acknowledged the particular significance of a constructive exchange of views on improving cooperation among the member states on many essential areas of regional development, especially in the context of interaction with the relevant UN anti-terrorism unit on the basis of Joint Declaration on Cooperation between SCO and UN Secretariats signed 5 April 2010 in Tashkent.

During the meeting in Oqsaroy, the guests expressed sincere gratitude to the head of our state for the warm welcome, noting in particular the special significance of the efforts by our nation’s leadership to revitalize the SCO activity in various spheres of regional cooperation in the course of Uzbekistan’s presidency in the Organization.

At the talk, procedures in preparation to the meeting by the Council of Heads of SCO Member States and other topics of region-wide implication have been discussed.