Editor's Note.

Apart from the other phenomenonal events in International and regional politics, the seventeenth meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) was held in the capital city of Dushanbe (Republic of Tajikistan) on 11-12 October 2018, with the participation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of India S. Swaraj, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan B. Sagintayev, Premier of the State Council of the people's Republic of China Li Keqiang, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic M. Abulgaziev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan S. M. Qureshi, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan K. Rasulzoda and Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A. Aripov.

Apart from these dignitaries, Secretary General of SCO Rashid Olimov, Director of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Yevgeni Sysoyev a as well representatives of Iran and Mongolia were also present during the meeting.

Apart from the discussions, the joint communique issue at the end of the Summit highlighted the urge for a collective peace, cooperation while addressing the concerns of the new emerging circumstances of the global economy and regional threats of terrorism and instability. Established in 2001, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a collective security organisation, the forum has come of age and changes its dynamics and chemistry from merely cooperating on security and related concerns to moving towards people to people contacts, economic and trade cooperation. With having 20 % of the world's GDP, 75% of world's energy resources and covering 42 % of the world populations with four declared nuclear powers, SCO is growing its influence in the world.

During the recent meeting, to complement the proposals presented by Pakistan, joint communique admitted the role of SCO business councils and inter-bank consortium to find new avenues of business, trade and raising financial cooperation and mutual investments. SCO believes in mutual cooperation through with it tends to facilitate other regional states and to share mutual development. It is likely to be strengthening up to the level where it will have the potential to resolve the regional issues in the region, not in the United Nations.

This would not put SCO in parity with the United Nations as it fully endorsed the charter of United Nations...