SCO issues its first statement on the novel coronavirus epidemic

Experts met in Bishkek to discuss how to put the 2019 digitalisation and ICT concept into practice. This marked a shift from summit-level agreement toward intergovernmental technical coordination.

The heads of government met to approve economic cooperation and institutional measures. The meeting connected the summit's regional agenda with trade, railways, agriculture and digital development.

The heads of government adopted a new version of the SCO Programme of Multilateral Trade and Economic Cooperation. It set a framework for member-state economic coordination, though the communiqués...

The Tashkent meeting approved a concept for collaboration between national railway administrations. It made transport connectivity a practical strand of the SCO's economic integration agenda.

The memorandum established cooperation on food security, sustainable agriculture, research, digital agriculture and investment. It linked regional economic policy to the UN Sustainable Development...

A high-level event in Vienna examined digital drug markets and cooperation between the SCO and UN agencies. It joined the organisation's security agenda to emerging online technologies.

Ministers called for coordinated multilateral action, cooperation with the WHO, and special attention to developing countries facing pandemic-related economic harm. They also proposed a joint regional...

SCO experts and health officials coordinated a draft plan for joint action against epidemic threats and discussed cooperation on plague prevention. The process built on the 2018 framework and informed...

Ministers in Moscow addressed the summit agenda, pandemic response, digital economy and multilateral cooperation. The meeting was one of the main in-person diplomatic preparations for the online...

The 15th meeting considered information security, counterterrorism coordination and the epidemic action plan. The agenda shows how public health was incorporated into the SCO's broader security...