How is the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) governed?

The SCO's full members account for approximately half of the world's population, and a quarter of the world's GDP. How much do you know about one of the largest global governance organisations?

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was founded on 26 April 1996. What was its original purpose?

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Forming a free trade organisation

A confidence-building forum to demilitarize the members' common borders

Building a common market

To create an informal forum for general policy discussions between the heads of state of the member countries

Which countries are currently members of the SCO?

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China and Japan

China, Mongolia, and Russia

China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

China, India, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

What are the SCO's more permanent areas of cooperation about?

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Anti-terrorism, economic cooperation and banking

Environmental protection and climate change mitigation

Forming a common foreign policy

All of the above

Which is the SCO's flag?

Vladimir Norov is the current Secretary General of the SCO. What is his role?

He decides on SCO's budget allocation

He is the leader of the Secretariat and clears administrative errandsfor the organisation

He can demand that member states draft new laws in certain policy areas

He is the supervisor of the treaties and acts as an impartial observer of the SCO treaties

What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

A large-scale plan to build various infrastructural projects such as railways, ports and oil pipelines across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe

An effort for China to expand trade and increase economic output

A way for China to expand its role in global affairs

All of the above

What is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?

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It is currently the biggest state-owned commercial bank in China

A multilateral development bank proposed by China, that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region

A collective fund instituted by the SCO members for building roads across Eurasia

An offshoot of the UN- backed Asian Development Bank, focusing on Eurasia