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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Simplified Chinese: 上海合作组织 Russian: Шанхайская организация сотрудничества
Member states Observer states
Formation	June 21, 2001; 21 years ago (2001-06-21)
Membership	6 member states, 4 observer states
Official language	Chinese, Russian

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization founded on June 14, 2001 by the leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. With the exception of Uzbekistan, they had been known before as the Five of Shanghai.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, at one time the leaders of the Shanghai Five.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai at an SCO summit in 2004.
SCO leaders at Peace Mission 2007. Hu Jintao, Vladimir Putin, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov
Leaders present at the SCO summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2009.
People's Republic of China Xi Jinping President of China
Republic of India Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India
Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev President of Kazakhstan
Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov President of Kyrgyzstan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif Prime Minister of Pakistan
Russian Federation Vladimir Putin President of Russia
Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon President of Tajikistan
Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev President of Uzbekistan

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