On June 23-24, 2016, 15th Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Tashkent under the chairmanship of the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov. Steadily adhering to the “Shanghai Spirit” the SCO member states signed the Tashkent Declaration, the Action Plan for 2016-2020 for the implementation of the SCO Development Strategy towards 2025, the Program on the Development of Cooperation in the Sphere of Tourism and the Memorandum of Obligations on the Membership Status of India and Pakistan.