TASHKENT (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th September, 2021) The countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) supported the initiative of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to hold a high-level SCO-Afghanistan meeting in Tashkent, Uzbek president's special representative for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, told reporters on Monday.
A couple of days ago, Mirziyoyev offered to host a SCO-Afghanistan meeting in Tashkent in 2022.
"In the nearest future, we are ready to hold the high-level meeting in Tashkent. During the (SCO) summit, we heard only positive responses so far. There was not a single, so to say, negative response. Everyone said it was a very good suggestion," Irgashev said on the sidelines of the Valdai Discussion Club conference "Russia and Uzbekistan Facing Development and Security Challenges at a New Historical Stage of Interaction."
