Shanghai Cooperation Organization today: significant aspects of its activities

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the state of activity of the SCO at the moment. In the article the expansion of the SCO is considered as an objective and necessary process for the evolution of such a regional association.
In an analysis of the economic cooperation in the framework of the SCO, attention is drawn to the conjugation of the Organization’s activities on expanding economic relations between the member countries with the Chinese program “One Belt, One Way”. On the base of research of the last facts and events in these two aspects the conclusion about newest trend in evolution of the SCO was made.