(MENAFN - Trend News Agency) Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug 30By Fakhri Vakilov-Trend:One of the largest Chinese companies, Alibaba Group, pla Dr Nesari welcomed collaborations from all SCO countries to cooperate for the promotion of the traditional medicine sector, including creation of single window clearance for medical products. Then all six heads of state signed on 15 June 2001 the Declaration of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, praising the role played thus far by the Shanghai Five mechanism and aiming to transform it to a higher level of cooperation. Structure and function of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. The current SCO Secretary-General is Rashid Alimov [66], At the occasion of Bishkek summit June 2019, Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan also gave a statement to build a market of local currency instead of US Dollars among the members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Prime Minister expressed India’s readiness to host the next regular Meeting of SCO Council of Heads of Government on November 30, 2020 in virtual format. Since then, the organisation has expanded its membership to eight countries when India and Pakistan joined SCO as full members on 9 June 2017 at a summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. In an address at the virtual meet of the council of heads of government of the Shanghai … [40][41], Turkmenistan has previously declared itself a permanently neutral country, which was recognised by a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, thus precluding its membership in a military alliance like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Shortly afterwards, Uzbekistan requested the U.S. to leave the K2 air base. The SCO group - including the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - was formed in 2001 to curb extremism in the region and enhance border security. India will be hosting SCO heads of government in a virtual meet on November 30 which will focus on economic cooperation among the nations. Both local and international experts are involved in providing better services. The SCO's official languages are Russian and Chinese. Children's art exhibition from SCO countries opens at Shanghai Art Fair 2020 / 12 / 04. [21], Nepal was granted dialogue partner status at the group's 2015 summit in Ufa, Russia. [18] Despite this, Belarus was accepted as a Dialogue Partner at the 2009 SCO Summit in Yekaterinburg, and after applying in 2012, was granted observer status in 2015. [7], By 2007 the SCO had initiated over twenty large-scale projects related to transportation, energy and telecommunications and held regular meetings of security, military, defence, foreign affairs, economic, cultural, banking and other officials from its member states. He said ties between India and SCO region have flourished uninterrupted for thousands of years. The SCO is an economic and security bloc in which India and Pakistan were admitted as full members in 2017. Although ESCO started as a reseller of power transmissions products (mainly torque converters and marine reversing gear units), Eugène Schmidt, the founder, developed his company into multiple industrial segments. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai (China) by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The issue was discussed by defence ministers and foreign ministers of the two countries on the SCO platform in Moscow. [2], The Shanghai Five grouping was created 26 April 1996 with the signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in Shanghai, China by the heads of states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. [62], At the 2007 SCO summit Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoodi addressed an initiative that had been garnering greater interest and assuming a heightened sense of urgency when he said, "The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a good venue for designing a new banking system which is independent from international banking systems".[63]. It’s in the best interest of all countries to realize further development. During the visit, the officials of the Council of Ministers visited the production capacities of BIMAL factory and STUDEN-AGRANA Sugar Refinery and discussed with STUDEN & […] It meets once a year and adopts decisions and guidelines on all important matters of the organisation. [64], On 16 June 2009, at the Yekaterinburg Summit, China announced plans to provide a US$10 billion loan to SCO member states to shore up the struggling economies of its members amid the global financial crisis. India and Pakistan joined as full members in 2017. Culture ministers of the SCO met for the first time in Beijing on 12 April 2002, signing a joint statement for continued cooperation. The Group generated premiums of more than EUR 16 billion in 2019, and serves clients in more than 160 countries from its 38 offices worldwide. Kazakhstan has also suggested an SCO folk dance festival to take place in 2008, in Astana. India proposes to set up SCO working groups on startups and innovation, traditional medicine In an address at the virtual meet of the council of heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said that during its chairmanship this year, India has proposed to create a Special Working Group on startups and innovation and offers to … It has become major constructive force in the Eurasian region and global affairs, he said. [81], The SCO has made no direct comments against the U.S. or its military presence in the region; however, some indirect statements at the past summits have been viewed by Western media outlets as "thinly veiled swipes at Washington". [71] The charter also dictates that the Council of Heads of Government (that is, the Prime Ministers) shall meet annually in a place decided upon by the council members. The Council of National Coordinators of SCO Member States (CNC) acts as the SCO coordination mechanism. [22], Sri Lanka was granted dialogue partner status at the group's 2009 summit in Yekaterinburg.[23][24]. [47] The Diplomat reported in 2017 that SCO has foiled 600 terror plots and extradited 500 terrorists through RATS. The current Council of Heads of State consists of: The Council of Heads of Government is the second-highest council in the organisation. For prelims and mains: SCO- objectives, members, functions, significance, various organs and issues associated. Peace Mission 2010, conducted 9–25 September at Kazakhstan's Matybulak training area, saw over 5,000 personnel from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conduct joint planning and operational maneuvers.[54]. ", "Competition over Eurasia: Are the U.S. and Russia on a Collision Course? "[87], In November 2005 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated that the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is working to establish a rational and just world order" and that "The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation provides us with a unique opportunity to take part in the process of forming a fundamentally new model of geopolitical integration". The position of Dialogue Partner was created in 2008. During the 2007 war games in Russia, with leaders of SCO member states in attendance including Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russia's President Vladimir Putin used the occasion to take advantage of a captive audience. There they signed the SCO Charter which expounded on the organisation's purposes, principles, structures and forms of operation, and established it in international law. [71], The United States applied for observer status in the SCO, but was rejected in 2005. The locations of these summits follow the alphabetical order of the member state's name in Russian. This is the first-time India hosted the SCO Heads of Government meeting after it joined the eight-member grouping in 2017. A Framework Agreement to enhance economic cooperation was signed by the SCO member states on 23 September 2003. [36][37][38][39] Bahrain and Qatar have also officially applied to join the SCO. The SCO takes in China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. On 21 April 2006, the SCO announced plans to fight cross-border drug crimes under the counter-terrorism rubric. He said China will host a China-SCO forum on the digital economy next year in China's Chongqing city. We have also proposed a Working Group on Traditional Medicine, so that the knowledge of traditional and ancient medicine is spread across SCO countries and the headway in contemporary medicine can complement each other. Turkey, a member of NATO, was granted dialogue partner status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the group's 2012 summit in Beijing. Russian strategic bombers, he said, would resume regular long-range patrols for the first time since the Cold War. India is all set to host the virtual summit of the SCO Heads of the Government on November 30, in which Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is expected to participate. Third, we need to deepen practical cooperation and build a community of development for us all. SCO Heads of State Council. Rasco Group is a steadily growing company operating in the market of engineering services. While expressing India’s readiness to share its experience with the SCO Member States in the fight against the pandemic, Shri Naidu said the sociopolitical impact of COVID-19 has … The group can further rely on a tight-knit network of distributors who promote our brand in more than 25 countries around the world. The current Council of Heads of Government consists of: The Council of Foreign Ministers also hold regular meetings, where they discuss the current international situation and the SCO's interaction with other international organisations.[12]. We need to be guided by the vision of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development … Mongolia became the first country to receive observer status at the 2004 Tashkent Summit. [citation needed]. The staff includes technical engineers of various specialties and have the necessary experience. The SCO Heads of Government Council (HGC) meets once a year to discuss the organisation's multilateral cooperation strategy and priority areas, to resolve current important economic and other cooperation issues, and also to approve the organisation's annual budget. Excellencies, India firmly believes that with the combination of economic multilateralism and national capacity building, SCO countries can escape from the crisis of pandemic l The Council of Heads of State shall be the supreme SCO body. On the meeting the status of a full member of the Organization was granted to the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. [50][51] There have been a number of SCO joint military exercises. [46], The organisation is also redefining cyberwarfare, saying that the dissemination of information "harmful to the spiritual, moral and cultural spheres of other states" should be considered a "security threat". The SCO was established in 2001 by China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. SHOTLIST 1. In addition to HSC and HGC meetings, there is also a mechanism of meetings at the level of heads of parliament; secretaries of Security Councils; ministers of foreign affairs, defence, emergency relief, economy, transport, culture, education, and healthcare; heads of law enforcement agencies and supreme and arbitration courts; and prosecutors general. Rashid Alimov (Tajikistan) and Yevgeny Sysoyev (Russia) have held these positions, respectively, since 1 January 2016. India will be hosting SCO heads of government virtual meet on 30th November which focus on economic cooperation. The SCO is an economic and security bloc in which India and Pakistan were admitted as full members in 2017. In this context, they attach great importance to further interaction in various multilateral formats, including the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group, the Moscow format consultations and others. "Our pilots have been grounded for too long. The Heads of State Council (HSC) is the supreme decision-making body in the SCO, it meets once a year and adopts decisions and guidelines on all important matters of the organisation. The SCO Group began in 2002 with a renaming of … With the growth of SCO each day, the latter appears to defeat the other organisations in the … Four nations - Iran, Mongolia, India and Pakistan - have observer status. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Iran: A Power-full Union. The council also approves the organisation's budget. It was even dubbed the “Anti-NATO ” for proposing military cooperation. Reiterating its stance yet again, India refused to extend support to China's mega connectivity project OBOR or One Belt One Road initiative at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization or SCO. Other SCO members, however, have not committed themselves to the idea. of Tajikistan, appointed to the office of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretary-General in January 2016. The Head of RATS is elected to a three-year term. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001. In July 2005, at the summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, with representatives of India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan attending an SCO summit for the first time, the president of the host country, Nursultan Nazarbayev, greeted the guests in words that had never been used before in any context: "The leaders of the states sitting at this negotiation table are representatives of half of humanity". In June 2002, the heads of the SCO member states met in Saint Petersburg, Russia. India made an offer to annually host special working group for start-ups" Naidu added. The results of the SCO Business Forum organized by the SCO BC (November 3-6, 2020) and the SCO Business Conclave, held by the Republic of India (November 23, 2020), to improve the effectiveness of measures to support and develop multilateral cooperation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises of the SCO countries were highlighted. Both signed the memorandum of obligations in June 2016 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, thereby starting the formal process of joining the SCO as full members. The Secretariat of the SCO is the primary executive body of the organisation. “SCO charter has a provision that one country cannot hold up cooperation in areas and allows member countries which are interested to take it forward with the exclusion of one country … Since then China and Russia have teamed up for large-scale war games in 2005 (Peace Mission 2005), 2007 and 2009, under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. [68][69], An SCO Arts Festival and Exhibition was held for the first time during the Astana Summit in 2005. [17], Iran has observer status in the organisation, and applied for full membership on 24 March 2008. Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 30 India on Monday said terrorism is the region’s biggest challenge and sought the elimination of this threat to enable it realise its true potential, India has also proposed to set up a Special Working Group on Innovation and Startups and a Sub Group on Traditional Medicine within SCO. The Indian Prime Minister highlighted India's proposal to establish a working group for traditional medicine and also the 'Innovation & Startup' group for the welfare of SCO countries. The G7 (or Group of Seven) is an organisation made up of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, … [86], At a 2005 summit in Kazakhstan the SCO issued a Declaration of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation which addressed their "concerns" and contained an elaboration of the organisation's principles. The original five nations, with the exclusion of Uzbekistan, were previously members of the Shanghai Five group, founded on 26 April 1996. The Council of National Coordinators coordinates the multilateral cooperation of member states within the framework of the SCO's charter. At the same meeting the Premier of China, Wen Jiabao, proposed a long-term objective to establish a free trade area in the SCO, while other more immediate measures would be taken to improve the flow of goods in the region. An accord adopted in 2009 defined "information war", in part, as an effort by a state to undermine another's "political, economic, and social systems". "We have also proposed a working group on traditional medicine so that the knowledge of traditional and ancient medicine in SCO countries and the advances in contemporary medicine can complement each other," he added. [89], A 2010 analysis in American Legion Magazine said that 'Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao... has concluded that the United States is maneuvering "to preserve its status as the world's sole superpower and will not allow any country the chance to pose a challenge to it. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday made a strong pitch for greater counter-terrorism cooperation among the SCO countries to foster a secure and stable environment for development. [84] Also, according to political scientist Thomas Ambrosio, one aim of SCO was to ensure that liberal democracy could not gain ground in these countries. [citation needed] However, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov voiced doubt on the probability of Belarus' membership, saying that Belarus was a purely European country. The SCO is a grouping of eight countries-- India, Pakistan, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. In the SCO NSA meets, Pakistani NSA has put a map of Pakistan that violated the territorial integrity of India drawing strong response by New Delhi. In 2001, the annual summit returned to Shanghai. More than 4,000 soldiers participated at the joint military exercises in 2007 (known as "Peace Mission 2007") which took place in Chelyabinsk Russia near the Ural Mountains, as was agreed upon in April 2006 at a meeting of SCO Defence Ministers. That made Turkey the first country to chair a club in the organisation without full membership status. The SCO has established relations with the United Nations in 2004 (where it is an observer in the General Assembly), Commonwealth of Independent States in 2005, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2005, the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2007, the Economic Cooperation Organization in 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2011, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in 2014, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in 2015,[9] African Union in 2018. [25] This was reinforced again on 21 November 2016, after the European Parliament voted unanimously to suspend accession negotiations with Turkey. Context: The Second Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Mass Media Forum is being held at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It is still being debated. 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