Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO)

​Established    : 2003
Headquarter  : Beijing, China

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai (China) by, China, Kyrgyzstan , Russian, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Charter was signed during the St.Petersburg SCO Heads of State meeting in June 2002, and entered into force on 19 September 2003. The Heads of State Council (HSC) is the supreme decision-making body in the SCO. It meets once a year and adopts decisions and guidelines on all important matters of the organisation. The SCO's official languages are Russian and Chinese. The organisation has two permanent bodies -- the SCO Secretariat based in Beijing and the Executive Committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) based in Tashkent. The SCO Secretary-General and the Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO RATS are appointed by the Council of Heads of State for a term of three years.
The historical meeting of the Heads of State Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was held on 8-9 June 2017 in Astana. On the meeting the status of a full member of the Organization was granted to the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The SCO comprises eight member states, namely

1. India, 
2. Kazakhstan,
3. China,
4. Kyrgyzstan,
5. Pakistan,
6. Russian,
7. Tajikistan, and
8. Uzbekistan