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There was a conference of the council of heads of government of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Islamabad, Pakistan, in mid-October.

The meeting released a statement on improving cooperation among the member states in different fields including information security.

The statement specified such problems as to support the member states in introducing digital technology into economic and social fields, arrange various events involving the member states, observer states and dialogue partners and pointed to the matter of examining the initiative on setting up a sports association in the organization and holding sports games of the member states.

At the conference, the Russian Prime Minister said that although the West is intensifying pressure on his country, the initiators of sanctions will certainly fail to attain their goals and that his country is concentrating efforts on exploiting internal potentials and supporting major sectors of the national economy and businesses, while proactively developing cooperation with friendly countries.

The trade volumes between Russia and the SCO member states approached a record high of 30 trillion roubles last year and the mutual trade increased by 5.5% in the first half of this year.

Referring to such successes, the Russian Prime Minister called on the member states to offer each other access to high technology, utilize advanced security models in the digital space and take a unanimous stand on the energy security issue.

Stating that the SCO has every potential to be one of the powerful centres of a fair and multipolar world currently in the making, he appealed to its member states to join efforts for economic prosperity.