Business programme

The major regional associations in the Eurasian space are systematically working to intensify cooperation. In 2005, the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed a memorandum of understanding. In 2018, the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and ASEAN signed a memorandum of understanding on economic cooperation. In 2021, the EEC and the SCO Secretariat signed a memorandum of understanding. In addition, the EEC and ASEAN adopted a join action programme until 2025. In September 2021, during the Eastern Economic Forum, the SCO Secretary-General proposed that Eurasia’s largest regional organizations – the EAEU, SCO and ASEAN – hold consultations to develop new approaches to cooperation in an effort to avoid competition between different integration initiatives and to also shape the concept of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. How can a dialogue between the largest regional associations contribute to the formation of the Greater Eurasian Partnership? What key focuses of cooperation – financial, economic, investment, transport, energy, and digitalization – could form the basis of the ASEAN–EAEU–SCO integration segment? Do CIS and CICA share the ideas of Greater Eurasia? What integration and other best practices of certain organizations should be implemented at others? How could collaboration between regional organizations contribute to the stabilization of the economic situation in the changing world? What tasks can key regional organizations focus on when building up their potential?

Moderator
Alexey Maslov, Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Alexey Maslov

Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Panellists
Rashid Alimov, Professor, Taihe Institute; Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, (2016–2018)
Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Zhang Ming, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (online)
Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Economic Commission
Alexander Pankin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Sergei Pospelov, Executive Secretary, Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Kairat Sarybay, Executive Director of the Secretariat, Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measure in Asia (CICA) (online)
Denis Trefilov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee – Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Rashid Alimov

Professor, Taihe Institute; Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, (2016–2018)

Born 23 June 1953. Ethnic Tajik.
Education:
Graduated from Tajik State University in 1975. Graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Central Committee in 1989. Doctor of Political Sciences. Fluent in Tajik, Russian and English.
Experience:
1976-1982: Held various positions in the Central Committee of the Leninist Young Communist League (LYCL) and the Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT);
1982-1986: Instructor and Deputy Head of the Agitprop Department of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (ALYCL);
1986-1991: First Secretary of the LYCL of Tajikistan and member of the ALYCL Central Committee Bureau; leading positions in the CPT Dushanbe City Committee;
1986-1994: Deputy of two convocations, Chairman of the Committee on Youth Affairs and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (TSSR);
1991-1992: State Counsellor to the President of the Republic of Tajikistan;
1992-1994: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan;
1994-2005: Permanent Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to the UN;
2005-2015: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the People's Republic of China; Permanent Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO);
SCO Secretary-General since 1 January 2016.
At the SCO summit in Ufa on 10 July 2015, Rashid Alimov was appointed SCO Secretary-General from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018. He holds the diplomatic rank of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Author of 13 books and over 50 articles on international relations published in academic journals in China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
Received the state orders Friendship of Nations and Sharaf, as well as medals and other awards of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Winner of the Silk Road — Humanitarian Cooperation international prize and gold medal for special contribution to humanitarian cooperation between SCO member states.
Married with two children.

Zhang Ming

Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Mikhail Myasnikovich

Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Economic Commission

He was born on May 6, 1950 in the village of Novy Snov, Nesvizh District, Minsk Region.

He graduated from Snovskaya secondary school with a silver medal in 1967, from Brest Engineering and Construction Institute in 1972, and from Minsk Communist Party Higher School in 1989.

In 1972, he began his career as an engineer at Minskproekt State Design Institute.

From 1972 to 1973 he served in the Soviet army.

From 1973 to 1983 he held engineering and senior management positions in public utilities of the city of Minsk.

From 1983 to 1986 he was Chairman of Soviet District Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the city of Minsk, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of Minsk City Council of People's Deputies, Secretary of Minsk City Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus.

From 1986 to 1990 he served as Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of the BSSR.

From 1990 to 1995 he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR - Chairman of the State Committee for Economy and Planning of the BSSR, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus.

In 1994, he was appointed as a member of the Presidium of the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union (CIS).

From 1995 to 2001 he was Head of Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of Belarus.

From 2001 to 2010 he served as Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (President, since 2004 – Chairman of the Presidium).

From 2003 to 2012 he was Chairman of the Subcommittee for State Awards of the Republic of Belarus in the field of science and technology.

Since 2015 he was Chairman of the Committee for State Awards of the Republic of Belarus.

From 2010 to 2014 he served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus.

From 2015 to 2019 he co-chaired the Forums of Regions of Belarus and Russia held annually by the Council of the Republican National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

In 2014 he took part in the UN Climate Summit, as well as in the first Belarusian-American Investment Forum, which were both held in New York.

From 2015 to 2019 he was Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the fifth (2015-2016) and sixth (2016-2019) convocations, Chairman of the Council for Interaction of Local Self-Government Bodies under the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (2015-2019).

He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BelAZ Open Joint-Stock Company.

He has three Certificates of Gratitude from the President of the Republic of Belarus. He was invested with the following awards: the Order "Badge of Honor" (1981), the Order of the Fatherland of the 3rd class (2000), the Order of Friendship (Russian Federation) (2009), the Order of Friendship (People's Republic of China) (2010), the Order of the Belarusian Orthodox Church of St. Cyril of Turov of the 1st class (2010), anniversary medals, the Badge "Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus "For a Major Contribution to the Development of Science"" (2014), D. Cantemir Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Moldova, the Big Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Certificates of Honor of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus and the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, V.M. Ignatovsky Badge of Honor of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2018). He is Honorary Citizen of the town of Nesvizh (2015).

He is Doctor of Economics (1998), Professor (2003), and Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2009). He is also Doctor Honoris Causa of St. Petersburg State University of Economics (2008) and Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (2011), Professor Emeritus of Brest State Technical University (2013), and Professor Emeritus of Belarusian State University (2017). He is the author of monographs, scientific papers and publications in the field of economics, international integration and state-building. He has trained three Candidates of Science.

He is married. He has a daughter and a son, and four grandchildren.

Sergei Pospelov

Executive Secretary, Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization

Kairat Sarybay

Executive Director of the Secretariat, Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measure in Asia (CICA)

Denis Trefilov

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee – Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Front row participants
Daniyar Kurbanov, Director, Information-Analytical center for international relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ivan Polyakov, Chairman, Russia–ASEAN Business Council
Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Daniyar Kurbanov

Director, Information-Analytical center for international relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ivan Polyakov

Chairman, Russia–ASEAN Business Council

Alexander Shokhin

President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Alexander N. Shokhin was born 25 December, 1951.
Graduated from the Moscow State University in 1974.
Doctor of Economics, Professor.
Twice, in 1991-1994 and in 1998, Mr. Shokhin held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
In 1991-1994 he also held positions of Minister of Labor, Minister of Economics, Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development.
From 1994 to 2002 – Deputy of the State Duma, with the posts of First Vice Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma party bloc 'Our Home is Russia', Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets.
Since 1995 - President of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics.
From 2002 to 2006 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Group "Renaissance Capital".
From 2005 to 2009 – member of the RF Public Chamber.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Mr. Shokhin is a member of several deliberative bodies under the Russian President and Government. He is also an independent director on the Boards of several companies, including ALROSA, Russian Railways, TMK and others.