Chairman of the Board of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former (2007-2009) SCO Secretary General Bolat Nurgaliyev  made an online welcoming speech at the international conference "Twenty Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Looking Back and into the Future", which began on June 24, 2021, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The event was jointly organized by the Center for the Study of the SCO at the Chinese Academy of International Affairs, the Center for International Legal Training and Cooperation of the SCO at the Shanghai Political and Law University, the Shanghai Academy of Sciences and the SCO Secretariat with assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC.
The conference was attended by the representatives of the leadership of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, the Shanghai City Hall, as well as the current SCO Secretary General and previous SCO Secretaries General, experts and scientists from the SCO member states, and journalists. 
(The text of speech is attached).