Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Prepared by
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Prepared by
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Prepared by
Prepared By
FAYYAZ AHMAD
INTRODUCTION
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Shanghai Pact
Shanghai Five
is a Eurasian political, economic and military organization
which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of
China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan & 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 organization.
Origins and Background
• The Shanghai Five grouping was created 26 April 1996 with the
signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions
in Shanghai by the heads of states of Kazakhstan, the People's
Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
• On 24 April 1997, the same countries signed the Treaty on Reduction
of Military Forces in Border Regions in a meeting in Moscow.
• Uzbekistan was admitted in the Shanghai Five mechanism and all six
heads of state signed on 15 June 2001, the Declaration of Shanghai
Cooperation Organization
MEMBER AND OBSERVER STATES