DUSHANBE, June 13, Asia-Plus — Suhrob Sharipov, the director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Tajik President, and Abdunabi Sattorzoda, the head of the Center’s department for foreign policy, will attend the next session of experts from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on June 15.
According to the Center for Strategic Studies, heads of national research centers on the SCO problems from member nations of the Organization and nations having observer status at the SCO have been invited to attend the session in Almaty.
The Almaty session aims to discuss mechanisms of expansion of cooperation between the SCO and other international organizations as well as issues related to activities of SCO’s Business Council, Inter-Bank Association and Energy Club.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental
organization, which was founded on June 14, 2001 by the leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Except for Uzbekistan, the other countries had been members of the Shanghai Five; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001, the members renamed the organization. The SCO is primarily centered around its member nations” Central Asian security-related concerns, often describing the main threats it confronts as being terrorism, separatism and extremism.
