Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Shanghai Cooperation Organization Heads of State Council Meeting on September 1, calling the SCO “a powerful driver for global development processes.” He covered many points, including the basis for resolving the Ukraine crisis. On the SCO economic perspective, he proposed building a new investment platform for the SCO member nations, similar to what he is proposing for the BRICS, and stated that the SCO may be needed to replace the failed, destructive “Eurocentric and Euro-Atlantic” models in Eurasia.
Putin opened his speech by invoking the May 9 celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War “and the defeat of Nazi Germany” that were held in Moscow, and praised the September 3 “large-scale events [that] will take place in Beijing to commemorate the victory over Japanese militarism and the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.”
He also singled out for praise the Tianjin Declaration, which the SCO is issuing at the conclusion of this conference, and the SCO Development Strategy through 2035, a ten-year perspective for the SCO’s future growth.
