Highlights of Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin
Highlights of Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin
- Laos officially joins the SCO as a dialogue partner, bringing the total number of like-minded nations to 27.
- Armenia and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations.
- More than 10 new applications from various countries to join the SCO are currently being reviewed.
- Representatives of non-SCO members Malaysia and Vietnam attended.
- Representatives of 10 international organizations including the UN and ASEAN were present.
- Members strongly condemn acts causing civilian casualties and humanitarian disasters in Gaza.
- China and Armenia established a strategic partnership.
- Ten intergovernmental agreements were signed between Kyrgyzstan and China.
- Members advocate creating new and modernizing existing international transport routes.
- Resolution on granting the SCO an observer status within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS);
- China will increase investments and loans to partners. Calls along with others for the creation of a SCO Development Bank. (This is not the same as the New Development Bank of the BRICS+ group). -China will work with members to increase the installed capacity of solar & wind power by 10 million kilowatts each over the next 5 years.
- Agreement among the member states on the SCO Anti-Drug Centre and Universal Centre for Countering Security Challenges and Threats of the SCO Member States.
- Statement of the SCO Heads of State Council on effectively addressing and combating the global drug problem.