Shanghai Cooperation Organisation a response to EU expansion to East Europe and Russia.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an alliance which was founded on the basis of the Shanghai Five (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia). Its priority and founding principle is security and stability in the Greater Central Asian region.

The inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001 led to the renaming of the organisation, which could now be set to expand. The possible membership of Iran, India, Mongolia and Pakistan has been discussed at recent sessions of the SCO. Iran has applied for full membership in March 2008, but was told it can't join.

Meanwhile countries like Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Armenia have attended various SCO summits as guests.

Though the organisation is relatively new, it is rapidly growing in importance. It gives a platform for greater cooperation between the member and observer states, with leaders meeting each other both face to face and in the format of roundtable discussions.

According to the charter of the SCO, it meets annually with a rotating presidency. At each summit, which are attended by heads of state and foreign ministers, they focus on issues of security and stability in the region, including boosting economic cooperation and fighting drug trafficking.

Extraordinary meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers may be called by any two member states.

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[SCOPLAChina]

Down with the NATO! They present the world as the peacekeepers, but they are planning an evil scheme to take over the world. They built military ports or access points throughout the world. Especially in third world countries.

--- Awakening of the Red Dragon! --- --- Long Live the Red Dragon ---

[cbong1993]

Yes USA applied the membership to join SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), and they got rejected hahaaha, what a shame, it already named "anti-US or NATO".

And I hope China and Russia will not join the evil nato (I mean axis). As Chinese, I'm proud to have my state of Goverment, we love our goverment, in school we learn lots of things and I just discovered how evil is the dumb usa.

[angeldude13]

i din't new india was part of sco???

[aviomaster]

USA bombed Serbia 1999 10 million people with brutal force ... of 500 Aircraft , B-2 bombers first time used in combat ...

and what not ...

USA is danger for the world peace not CHina ...

[BusterXXXL]

I am amazed, that you could even watch this video in China. Did you learn how many stdents were killed on Tien-An-Men in school, too?

[rebo550]

Yea, long live the dragon, some of the most horrific human rights violations in the world, go go go, you go boy.

[segregator236]

Uh, China created the SCO, so China is in automatically.

[subzero961]

This video is filled with inaccuracies, where did this guy get his journalism degree again, at the bottom of a cereal box?

Iran, India and Mongolia are not SCO members, they are observers, with only Iran applying for membership.

[lookyeahhohon]

USA applied for membership???? the biggest joke ever??? yeah china and russia should join NATO too..hahha...