Objectives of the SCO
- Enhancing neighborliness and respect between the member states.
- Encouraging efficient collaboration in the fields of politics, trade, the economy, science, and culture.
- Strengthening connections in areas such as environmental protection, energy, transportation, and tourism.
- Maintain and uphold the region’s peace, security, and stability.
- Creation of a new international political and economic order that is democratic, fair, and logical.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
An Eurasian political, economic, and military organisation is known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The Shanghai Five, which was founded by the presidents of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan in 1996, was renamed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2001. On September 19, 2003, the SCO came into effect. Since its founding in 2001, the SCO has mostly concentrated on issues related to regional security, its struggle against local terrorism, ethnic secession, and religious extremism. Regional development is one of the SCO’s current top priorities. Since 2005, the SCO has participated in the UN General Assembly as an observer. It is viewed as a counterweight to NATO and is a nine-member economic and security bloc that has grown to be one of the biggest trans-regional international organisations. The SCO is recognized as one of the most important summits in the Central Asian region, where other nations have strong interests in commerce, connectivity, and resource extraction. More than 60% of Eurasia’s land area, 40% of the world’s population, and more than 30% of the world’s GDP are all accounted for by it. China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Iran are among the SCO’s nine current members. Iran has joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which was recently expanded to include permanent members at its summit in Uzbekistan in 2022.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) 2022 just convened a conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The Samarkand Declaration was signed by the signatory states. After India took over from Uzbekistan as chair of the eight-nation organisation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to host the summit in 2023.