Science and technology ministers hold a sectoral meeting

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

The Council of Foreign Ministers met in Astana on 20–21 May and reviewed political, economic, environmental, and humanitarian cooperation while preparing summit documents. Pakistan’s first...

The fifth meeting of environmental ministries and agencies discussed cooperation in environmental protection and ecological security during the SCO Year of Ecology. The communiqué records member...

Tourism administration heads met in Almaty and approved a joint action plan for implementing the SCO tourism cooperation programme for 2024–25. Tourism was presented as both economic exchange and a...

A Dushanbe conference addressed transport connectivity, freight safety, and lowering environmental impacts. The proposals show the SCO’s infrastructure agenda as a question of regional agency and...

Energy ministers discussed cooperation in the energy sector under Kazakhstan’s chairmanship. The SCO framed energy as a shared regional policy field, although the source provides no comparative data...

The Interbank Consortium’s board reviewed financing cooperation and the institution’s work. This financial track points to efforts to build regional channels alongside national and global lenders; the...

The Council of National Coordinators met in Astana from 29 June to 2 July to review draft summit documents and complete preparations, including those connected with Belarus’s accession.

At its twenty-fourth meeting, the Council of Heads of State admitted Belarus as a full member, adopted the Astana Declaration, and approved a package of decisions. The enlargement brought the...

SCO culture ministers met in Vitebsk during the Slavianski Bazaar festival to discuss cultural cooperation. Belarus participated after joining the organization as a full member on 4 July.