CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Two days later, on 23 November 2016, Turkey was granted the chairmanship of SCO energy club for the 2017 period. That made Turkey the first country to chair a club in the organisation without full membership status. In 2022, Erdogan announced that Turkey would seek full SCO membership status.

Detailed explanation-2: -India and Pakistan signed the memorandum of obligations in June 2016 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, thereby starting the formal process of joining the SCO as full members. On 9 June 2017, at the historic summit in Astana, India and Pakistan officially joined SCO as full-members.

Detailed explanation-3: -India received the SCO rotating presidency yesterday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. India will hold the presidency of the grouping for a year until September 2023.

Detailed explanation-4: -The SCO summit was held two years later in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on 15 and 16 September. The next meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State will be held in 2023 in India.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Astana, Kazakhstan on 8 June 2017 to attend the Summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). At this meeting, on completion of the process, India became a full Member of the SCO.