The president remarked that there are four UN Security Council members in the «Shanghai family»: Russia, China, Pakistan, and Bahrain, including two permanent members. Kyrgyzstan will become a non-permanent member instead of Pakistan in 2027.

«You are perfectly aware of how large the share of SCO countries in the world population and economy is. Without members of our association it is impossible to resolve a single problem such as climate change, fight against pandemics, or the stabilization of energy markets,» Aleksandr Lukashenko is convinced.

He stressed that Belarus expects tighter interaction between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the United Nations Organization to produce an effect. «In our own format we are capable of promoting the solutions that have come to a halt in New York due to opposition from the West in such areas as promotion of international peace and security, fight against terrorism, cyber threats, and drugs trafficking,» the head of state said.