SCO Meet 2021

National Security Advisor of India attended a meeting of the top security officials from the member nations of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe on 23rd June, 2021.

Key Points discussed at the Meet

  • Full implementation of UN resolutions and targeted sanctions against UN-designated terrorist individuals and entities.
  • Adoption of international standards to counter terror financing including an MOU between SCO and Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
  • Monitoring new technologies used by terrorists such as drones and misuse of dark web, artificial intelligence, blockchain and social media.

India’s Proposal

  • India proposed an action plan against Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad as part of SCO framework and underlined the need to monitor new technologies used by terrorists, including drones, for smuggling of weapons and misuse of dark Web, artificial intelligence, blockchain and social media.

About SCO

  • It is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation.
  • It was formed on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai (China) by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • The SCO comprises nine member states, namely the Republic of India, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and Iran.

Main Goal of SCO

  • Strengthening mutual trust and neighborliness among the member states;
  • promoting their effective cooperation in politics, trade, the economy, research, technology and culture, as well as in education, energy, transport, tourism, environmental protection, and other areas;
  • making joint efforts to maintain and ensure peace, security and stability in the region;
  • moving towards the establishment of a democratic, fair and rational new international political and economic order.

RATS SCO

  • It is a permanent body of the SCO and is intended to facilitate coordination and interaction between the SCO Member States in the fight against terrorism, extremism and separatism.
  • India assumed the Chairmanship of RATS SCO from October 28, 2021, for a period of one year.

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