Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a standing inter-governmental organization; its establishment was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai (the PRC) by Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The SCO goals are:
- enhancing mutual confidence and good-neighborly relations between member states
- facilitating their effective cooperation in the political, trade and economic, scientific and technical and cultural spheres as well as in the field of education, energy, transport, tourism, and environmental protection
- collectively securing and maintaining peace, safety and stability in the region
- promoting the establishment of a democratic, fair and rational new international political and economic order.
The supreme decision-making body in the SCO is the Heads of State Council (HSC). The HSC meetings are held once a year.
More detailed information is available on the website of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization eng.sectsco.org/20170109/192193.html
