00:00The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is one of many intergovernmental organizations of a political and economic nature active in
00:06Asia.
00:07Its current secretary general is Nurlan Yermekbaev, a successor to the "Shanghai Group," it was established in 2001
00:14by China, Russia and four Central Asian states, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
00:21It expanded to include India and Pakistan in 2016, then Iran in 2021, and finally...
00:26Belarus in 2024.
00:27The SCO's primary aim was to respond to the geopolitical upheaval in Central Asia following the collapse of the USSR.
00:33in 1991 and the instability that this caused in the region.
00:37The Shanghai group and then the organization gradually institutionalized cooperation aimed at ensuring collective security.
00:43its members facing the threats of terrorism, extremism and separatism.
00:48China and Russia are at the heart of this agreement and are formalizing a form of rapprochement through it.
00:52geostrategic which goes beyond the regional framework.
00:55The SCO is one of the spearheads of Russia's geopolitics, including its shift towards...
00:59'Asia, which began in 1996, was amplified by Vladimir Putin in the 2010s, at the same time as its
01:06relations with Westerners.
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