The Republic of Kazakhstan will chair the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation from 5 July 2023 to June 2024.
During its presidency, Kazakhstan intends to focus the joint efforts of Member States on the following areas:
- improving the SCO and transforming it into an even more effective platform;
- capacity building in ensuring security and stability in the SCO area;
- deepening of economic and trade ties;
- deepening cooperation in the cultural and humanitarian sphere;
- expansion of the SCO and development of its international ties.
Kazakhstan, as SCO Chairman, will make every effort to modernise the Organization and further transform it into a more effective multilateral platform in order to further strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation and traditional bonds of friendship among the SCO member States.