The officials exchanged views on the current situation and prospects for developing international economic relations as well as on the growing role of SCO member-states therein.
Alexey Overchuk met with SCO Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev
Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk held a working meeting in Moscow with Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Nurlan Yermekbayev.
During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on the current situation and prospects for developing international economic relations, in which the SCO member states play a growing role.
Alexey Overchuk advised the SCO Secretary-General on the work during the Russian chairmanship of the SCO Heads of Government Council in 2024–2025, stressing the Russian side's focus on giving a new impetus to cooperation within the organisation on the economic track.
They noted the importance of combining national economic development strategies and multilateral integration projects, developing multimodal transport corridors linking the countries of Northern and Southern Eurasia, ensuring energy security in the SCO region, developing cooperation in the industrial and innovation spheres, as well as further developing humanitarian ties.
The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out the need for deeper economic cooperation between the SCO countries subject to the strategic goals provided in the Declaration of on further development of economic processes within the EAEU until 2030 and for the period until 2045 ”The Eurasian Economic Path,“ as well the CIS development strategy until 2030.
Alexey Overchuk and Nurlan Yermekbayev agreed on keeping regular contacts to ensure coordinated work of the SCO Secretariat and to provide substantive content for the forthcoming SCO Heads of Government Council meeting scheduled to be held in the autumn of 2025.
