SCO AND REGIONAL SECURITY ISSUES IN CENTRAL ASIA

The article examines the SCO's activities today as one of the most effective dialogue platforms be- tween the Central Asian countries, Russia and China on political, socio-economic issues. Kazakhstan and the Central Asian countries can only count on the CSTO's assistance at the moment, and, therefore, the CIS coun- tries need to do everything to revive the work of the CSTO as a structure that acts as a guarantor and mechanism for cooperation in the field of collective security