{"id":7191,"date":"2022-11-01T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:15:53","slug":"shanghai-co-operation-organisation-sco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shanghai-co-operation-organisation-sco\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation. It is a Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance and has been the primary security pillar of the region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 2001. It was preceded by the Shanghai Five mechanism.<\/li>\n<li>The Heads of State Council (HSC)\u00a0is the supreme decision-making body in the SCO.<\/li>\n<li>It meets once a year and adopts decisions and guidelines on all important matters of the organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The organisation has two permanent bodies:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>the SCO Secretariat based in Beijing.<\/li>\n<li>the Executive Committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) based in Tashkent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Membership:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight member states: India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.<\/li>\n<li>India and Pakistan joined as full members in 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Four observer states:<\/strong>Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=SCO-Member-states-re-affirm-commitment-to-multipolar-world-order-based-on-international-law-and-multilateralism&amp;id=450231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}