Twenty-first SCO Heads of Government meeting

The fourth meeting of SCO interior and public-security ministers took place in Tashkent as part of Uzbekistan’s chairmanship, focusing on policing and public-security cooperation.

Defence ministers meeting in Tashkent emphasized Afghanistan’s stability and expanded military-to-military cooperation. The communiqué also notes an invitation to participate in Russia’s Vostok 2022...

At Samarkand, Iran signed a memorandum setting out its obligations on the path to full membership. The step formalized an accession process but did not make Iran a full member until 2023.

The heads of state adopted the Samarkand Declaration, emphasizing sovereign equality, dialogue, connectivity, and wider cooperation. Its language presents the SCO as a multipolar institution; analysis...

The heads of state issued a statement on reliable, sustainable, and diversified supply chains, placing trade and logistics resilience on the SCO agenda during global disruption.

Pakistan chaired the ninth SCO justice ministers’ meeting online, with member-state ministers and officials discussing legal cooperation.

The sixth meeting of heads of SCO supreme audit institutions opened in Lucknow, extending cooperation into public auditing and government accountability.

India chaired an expert working-group meeting on law enforcement and drug-related crimes, continuing the SCO’s security cooperation at technical level.

An expert group considered a roadmap to gradually increase the share of national currencies in mutual settlements among SCO members. The meeting shows a gradual policy objective, not an achieved...

The permanent expert working group on agriculture met under India’s chairmanship to coordinate sectoral policy within the SCO.