SCO leaders coordinate on communicable disease cooperation

The SCO hosted a special conference on Afghanistan with regional and international participation. The declaration treated Afghanistan’s stability as inseparable from regional security and development,...

Participants linked security to reconstruction and economic development and called for coordinated efforts against terrorism and narcotics trafficking. This recognized that military measures alone...

At the 2009 summit, member states called for dialogue and a more equitable and rational architecture of interstate relations. Their position challenged concentration of global decision-making power,...

The member states adopted the SCO Convention against Terrorism, giving a treaty framework to cooperation against terrorism. Its legal definitions and obligations expanded the organization’s security...

The Yekaterinburg meeting took place during the global financial crisis and called for international cooperation on economic stability and development. It positioned the SCO as a venue for...

The prime ministers issued an initiative to speed multilateral economic cooperation, respond to the financial crisis and support development. The initiative recorded a collective ambition; it should...

At the government meeting, member states discussed practical economic coordination in response to the global crisis. The episode shows the SCO’s interest in reducing exposure to external economic...

The UN and SCO Secretariats signed a declaration on cooperation in Tashkent. It formalized relations between the regional organization and the UN system, creating a channel for coordination while...

The member states issued a summit declaration in Tashkent, presenting the SCO as a platform for security, economic and diplomatic cooperation. Its principles of sovereign equality and non-interference...

The Tashkent summit adopted a procedure for future membership applications. This formalized a route for possible expansion, but it did not make any applicant a member or remove the requirement for...