Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu Reporting
At the World Public Assembly’s high-level session on International Integration Associations: The New Architecture of the World, global experts declared that the era of unipolar dominance is drawing to a close, giving way to a multipolar world anchored on cooperation, integration, and collective security.
“The world has changed, and managing the world from one point is no longer relevant and does not relate to the interests of many peoples,” declared Andrei Belyaninov, Secretary General of the World Peoples Assembly, setting the tone for the discussion.
Speakers underscored that the current global transformation—spanning politics, economics, finance, and society—requires new structures of cooperation. Isolation and sanctions, they argued, are relics of the past, increasingly replaced by policies of openness and unity.
Highlighting the role of international integration, Piao Yangfan, Deputy Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), stressed the bloc’s growing influence: “The SCO unites a third of the world economy, a third of the world’s wealth and a third of the population. We live in an era of profound historical changes, with a strong desire to build a multipolar world order.”
Sergei Glazyev, State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, echoed this sentiment: “The center of the world economy is changing before our eyes. The representatives here are not interested in war, but in creating growth and stability.”
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was also spotlighted as a critical instrument for regional stability. “The CSTO is the only organization that has the capabilities to withstand global challenges,” affirmed Samat Ordabayev, the bloc’s Deputy Secretary General.
Former SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov captured the spirit of integration with a striking metaphor: “One candle can light thousands of candles without losing its brightness—this is the principle of our international organizations.”
The session, moderated by Stanislav Korolev, Deputy Secretary General of the World Peoples Assembly, emphasized that international associations such as the SCO and CSTO are not military blocs but engines of cooperation, setting new trends for global development.
