Fifth consultations continue work on the SCO Development Bank

Coordinators met online from 3–5 August and continued work on the package of documents for the upcoming heads-of-state meeting in Kyrgyzstan.

A further online meeting on 10–12 August advanced draft documents for leaders’ consideration at Bishkek. The repeated consultations show consensus-building as a sustained institutional process.

National coordinators met online from 17–21 and on 24 August to continue the summit preparations and draft decisions. The report describes negotiation and preparation, not final adoption.

The 2026 SCO Forum on People-to-People Exchange opened in Bishkek ahead of the heads-of-state meeting. The programme foregrounded cultural and social ties as part of regional integration, while...

The twenty-sixth Council of Heads of State and SCO Plus meeting adopted the Bishkek Declaration and a package of 28 documents. Leaders approved charter amendments and measures establishing a universal...

The Startup Forum brought participants together to discuss entrepreneurship and innovation. It extended the SCO’s economic diplomacy into technology and business networks, with the official report...

Experts met in Astana on 1–3 October to discuss artificial intelligence. The forum positioned AI as a field for regional cooperation and policy exchange, while questions of data rights, language...

The twenty-fourth meeting of prosecutors general was held in Kazan on 1 October to discuss legal cooperation. The official account also uses a traditional-values frame; that language is presented as...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation said Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev attended the plenary of the International Forum on Ensuring Collective Security in Moscow. Press TV, an Iranian state...