Uzbekistan: Putin hails SCO’s importance to Russia’s foreign policy

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) during the second day of the group’s summit in Tashkent, Friday. He called the SCO “one of the priorities“ for Russia’s foreign policy. SOT, Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (Russian): “Respected heads of delegations, friends. The meeting of the Heads of SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organisation] member states has just finished, we had a substantive exchange of views on a wide range of issues, which will be included in