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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Simplified Chinese: 上海合作组织
Russian: Шанхайская Организация Сотрудничества
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization.svg
  Members   Acceding States (2017)
Abbreviation SCO / ShOS
Formation 26 April 1996
Type Mutual security, political, economic organisation
Headquarters Beijing, China
Membership
Official language
Chinese, Russian
Secretary General
Rashid Olimov
Deputy Secretaries General

Mikhail Alekseyevich Konarovskiy
Anvar Djamaletdinovich Nasyrov

Juyin Hong
Parviz Davlatkhodjayevich Dodov
Website www.sectsco.org

Coordinates: 39°57′16.43″N 116°28′19.50″E / 39.9545639°N 116.4720833°E / 39.9545639; 116.4720833

Mikhail Alekseyevich Konarovskiy
Anvar Djamaletdinovich Nasyrov

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), or Shanghai Pact, is a Eurasian political, economic, and military organisation which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. These countries, except for Uzbekistan had been members of the Shanghai Five, founded in 1996; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001, the members renamed the organisation. On July 10, 2015, the SCO decided to admit India and Pakistan as full members.

India and Pakistan signed the memorandum of obligations on 24 June 2016 at Tashkent, thereby starting the formal process of joining the SCO as full members. The acceptance process will take some months, by which they are expected to become full members by the next meeting at Astana in 2017.

The official working languages of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are Chinese and Russian. The official names of the organization in the two languages (abbreviations in parentheses) are:

Simplified Chinese:

Russian:

Member States


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