SCO justice ministers hold ninth meeting

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.

Prime ministers and delegation heads discussed economic cooperation, health, transport, and energy. The communiqué reaffirmed an open multilateral trading system and implementation of Samarkand...

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.

India chaired a meeting of SCO finance ministers and central-bank governors, providing a forum for macroeconomic and financial coordination among member states.