DUSHANBE, August 8, 2012, Asia-Plus — A Youth Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on entrepreneurship and cross-border cooperation is scheduled to take place in the city of Belokurikha, Russia’s Altai Krai from October 30 to November 2 this year.
Secretariat of the SCO Youth Council notes that the main objective of the forum is to support further development of entrepreneurship, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, within the SCO area and commercialization of the innovation activity.
The event is expected to bring together more than 500 participants and the most successful entrepreneurs from the SCO member nations will deliver statements at the forum, the SCO Youth Council’s Secretariat noted.
The forum will work in several sessions, including education, development of information technologies in the Asia-Pacific region, electronic trading, agriculture and energy.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization or SCO is an intergovernmental mutual-security organization which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Except for Uzbekistan, the other countries had been members of the Shanghai Five, founded in 1996; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001, the members renamed the organization.
