The Center of People’s Diplomacy of SCO is being created in Uzbekistan

The Center is created in accordance with the President’s Decree "On Measures for State Support of the Establishment of the Center for People’s Diplomacy of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan".

The new center in Tashkent will contribute to strengthening of mutual trust and good-neighborliness, inter-ethnic and inter-religious harmonythe development of inter-civilization dialogue among the SCO countries.

The center will take part in expanding cultural and humanitarian ties with the SCO countries and organizing mutual visits of delegations.

The Center of People’s Diplomacy of the SCO will create conditions for establishing a friendly atmosphere of interaction between the institutions of civil society, including youth and women’s organizations of the SCO countries, etc.

The structure will use the tools of people’s diplomacy with a view to bringing the SCO countries and their peoples closer together, strengthening the spirit of mutual trust and good-neighborliness.

The center will be formed in the form of a non-governmental non-profit organization. The founders of the Center are the Committee on Interethnic Relations and Friendly Relations with Foreign Countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education, the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports, the State Committee for the Development of Tourism, the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Arts, the Youth Union, Creative Union of Journalists and the Writers’ Union.