Laos receives SCO dialogue partner status

National coordinators met online on 4–5 August to review draft summit documents. The multi-stage drafting process illustrates how official declarations are negotiated before their public...

At an online meeting on 11–13 August, national coordinators discussed the Tianjin Declaration and the SCO Development Strategy to 2035. The future-oriented strategy is an official plan rather than...

The Council of National Coordinators met online from 18–20 August to continue work on documents for the Tianjin summit. The sequence reveals the procedural labor behind summit diplomacy.

The coordinators’ meeting opened in Beijing on 27 August to discuss the draft Tianjin Declaration, development strategy, and other documents expected for leaders’ consideration.

At their final meeting on 30 August, senior national representatives agreed on a package of documents for the heads-of-state council. The formal summit would determine which texts became adopted...

The twenty-fifth Council of Heads of State met in Tianjin and adopted 24 documents, including the Tianjin Declaration and the SCO Development Strategy to 2035. The declaration’s multipolar and...

Senior representatives of the SCO, Collective Security Treaty Organization, and Commonwealth of Independent States met after the Tianjin summit to discuss its outcomes and inter-organizational...

The twenty-fourth meeting of foreign economic and trade ministers discussed trade and economic cooperation. The SCO’s economic agenda is pursued through national ministries and voluntary coordination,...

The SCO Secretary-General met the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization in New York during the UN General Assembly period. The meeting linked SCO priorities with a global...

The twenty-fourth Council of Heads of Government adopted a joint communiqué and decisions concerning multilateral trade and economic cooperation, railways, and social development and protection. These...