Highlights of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit
- The concerns that Indian and Chinese officials have expressed to the Russian President over the conflict in Ukraine reflect worldwide concerns about the consequences of Moscow’s assault against the needs of people on every continent.
- According to PM Modi, the Indian economy will grow by 7.5% this year, making it the fastest-growing among the world’s major economies. India is moving closer to being a manufacturing centre, the prime minister added in his speech in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
- The SCO member states intend to create an uniform list of terrorist, separatist, and extremist organisations whose operations are illegal on their respective soils. To this end, they will develop shared principles and methodologies.
- The summit will take held in person for the first time since the COVID-19 epidemic and against the backdrop of several significant world events.
- Since the forces of the two countries clashed at the Galwan Valley in 2020, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet for the first time. The two forces have just begun the process of leaving Ladakh’s Patrolling Point 15 behind.
- The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the UN claims is the primary cause of the world food and cost of living crisis, will also be a major theme at the summit.
- In order to improve connectivity and contribute to the creation of dependable and robust supply chains in the area, India asked member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to grant each other complete rights of transit.
- For the years 2022–2023, Varanasi will serve as the SCO’s tourism and cultural capital, a designation intended to highlight both the region’s vibrant cultural and historical history and the member states’ tourism potential. Additionally, it will encourage travel, cultural, and humanitarian exchanges between India and the SCO member nations.
- The SCO member states emphasized the need to rehabilitate Afghanistan and include Iran in regional plans to foster a more welcoming neighborhood in the run-up to the summit. The decision to build a road between China, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan signals that the SCO is evolving from a political group to a regional organisation with a variety of developmental objectives.
- Increasing the well-being of its shared citizens and preserving its members’ connection to global markets are key priorities for the SCO. The expansion of its mission will defend less powerful members from attempts by more powerful ones, like Russia and China, to control the SCO’s organisational agenda and identity.
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.