This is the fifth facility within the network of the SCO People’s Diplomacy Centres.
Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev took part in the opening ceremony for the SCO National People’s Diplomacy Centre at the Foreign Ministry’s Reception House.
The event was attended by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, General Secretary of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly Andrei Belyaninov, and representatives of diplomatic missions of SCO countries (member states, observers and dialogue partners).
This is the fifth facility in the network of SCO People’s Diplomacy Centres that exist in China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
According to the Deputy Speaker, these projects perform a dual mission, transmitting to the leadership of SCO member countries and heads of diplomatic missions, ministries and agencies the powerful public call for interaction of this kind, which exists in the SCO countries, and making it possible to generate ideas so that cooperation maximally meets people’s expectations and is oriented to fruitful results.
“There is no doubt that these initiatives need support at all levels, including the parliamentary level,” Konstantin Kosachev said.
The SCO was founded on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai. Today, it comprises eight countries: its founders – Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – as well as India (president of the SCO in 2023) and Pakistan, which both joined in 2017.