In the part of the summit that took place this Thursday, the resolution was adopted unanimously, chaired by the recently elected President of the General Assembly, Comoros President Azali Assoumani, the SCO said in a statement.
Participants in the ministerial meeting held an intense debate on the urgent and critical need to align the name with the mission of the organization in order to facilitate the effective implementation of the joint program of member states.
SCO Secretary-General Sheikh Manssour Bin Mussallam said the new name is in line with the multidimensional and cross-sectoral vision of the founding documents such as the Universal Declaration of Balanced and Inclusive Rights, Education and the Charter.
In endorsing the resolution, delegates agreed that member states need to be supported in strengthening transdisciplinary research in order to effectively implement the organization’s goal of “contributing to an alternative and inclusive third path of development”.
Likewise, closing the techno-digital divide must be defended through the development of endogenous technologies, debt relief and securing cheap new financing, while strengthening and expanding South-South cooperation and integration, the text added.
They emphasized that the new name gives the countries of Global South Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Pacific and the Arab world the appropriate geographic identity that represents the current and future membership of the organization.
Mussallam reiterated that the CSO Secretariat will spare no effort to expedite the implementation of the Member States’ work program with due urgency.
Accordingly, with the name change, all past and future documents, communications, trademarks and other physical, digital and online materials will change to reflect the new name.
For his part, Assoumani expressed in his speech his commitment to continue supporting the CSO in realizing the collective vision of transforming societies within the members.
He believed that the Organization for Southern Cooperation has a very important mandate to guide member states in tackling the debt challenge, accessing fairer financing and creating a more inclusive and supportive international financial architecture.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stressed that the intergovernmental organization is a timely creation to help countries of the Global South revitalize global solidarity and genuine multilateralism.
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