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SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure
SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure
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Members agree to create a Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure
📅 7 Juni 2002The member states signed an agreement establishing the RATS framework to coordinate information and counterterrorism work. The agreement institutionalized security cooperation; its broad remit makes...
RATS Executive Committee begins work in Tashkent
📅 17 Januari 2004The permanent executive body of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure began operating in Tashkent. The institutional move made security coordination more continuous and placed a central SCO body in...
Fifth-anniversary declaration prioritizes security and anti-drug cooperation
📅 15 Juni 2006The member states named cooperation against terrorism, separatism, extremism and drug trafficking as priorities, and called for strengthening RATS. The language shows security capacity becoming a...
Security council secretaries discuss the summit agenda
📅 22 Mei 2018The 13th meeting of member-state security council secretaries addressed counterterrorism coordination, the 2019-2021 security cooperation programme, and a planned joint appeal to youth. The record...
SCO adopts a 2019-2021 security cooperation programme
📅 10 Juni 2018The programme set out cooperation against terrorism, separatism and extremism, with the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure assigned a central role. Its security categories also raise questions...
RATS council reviews regional counterterrorism coordination
📅 15 Maart 2019The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Council met in Tashkent as a standing security mechanism. Its work illustrates how the SCO operationalised cooperation through permanent bodies between annual...