Samarkand-SANA
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stressed that US unilateralism seeks to keep the countries of the world in a state of backwardness, calling on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to take a set of economic measures and measures to confront it, including regulating sustainable trade among the organization's members, developing financial infrastructure and exchanging goods and data.
Raisi said during the expanded meeting of the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries today that Iran gives priority in its foreign policy to the organization and to dealing with the countries that support it, stressing the important role of his country in ensuring stability and security in the region, especially in dealing with Takfiri terrorism, extremism and drug smuggling and addressing other forms of crime the organization.
Raisi pointed out that the SCO is a symbol of the great family of global civilizations and can today build new horizons for increasing regional cooperation in order to establish security on the basis of justice and respect for human dignity.
Raisi expressed his country's special interest in transportation and trade corridors between East and West Asia and energy security, stressing that "the Iranian transport network and ports are at the service of the organization's countries, given that the transit infrastructure between the members of the organization is not extensive, despite its great potential and capabilities."
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