SCO regional business partnership week opens

At Panaji, foreign ministers agreed on summit agenda and draft documents, and discussed completing Iran’s accession, Belarus’s accession process, and engagement with dialogue partners.

The heads of state completed the procedure for Iran to become a full SCO member, expanding the organization to nine members. Accession changed the institution’s membership but did not itself resolve...

The heads of state adopted a statement on digital transformation, recognizing digital technologies as a field for cooperation and development. Implementation and equitable access remained national and...

The heads of state adopted the New Delhi Declaration and a package of other documents at India’s virtual summit, setting out priorities across security, economic, cultural, and international...

The heads of state adopted a statement on countering radicalisation leading to terrorism, separatism, and extremism. A decolonial reading notes how the organization’s security vocabulary centers...

At Bishkek, SCO ministers responsible for foreign economic and trade activity adopted a statement on deepening cooperation and e-commerce. The statement promotes open multilateral trade and...

Bishkek hosted the heads-of-government meeting. Delegations discussed trade, transport, energy, agriculture, digital economy, and other areas; the communiqué reaffirmed existing cooperation plans...

The nineteenth meeting of the secretaries of the member states’ security councils reviewed cooperation on security and prepared materials for the July heads-of-state summit. This is an official...

Education ministers discussed cooperation in education and exchanged views on shared programmes. The meeting extended the organization’s work beyond diplomacy and security into a sector where national...

The twenty-first meeting of culture ministers considered cultural cooperation by videoconference. Official cultural exchange offers a regional vocabulary of civilizational plurality, while the...