On March 17, 2015, RIAC hosted expert meeting "Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Model 2014-2015" to discuss the same name working paper authored by Acting Director of RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies Sergey Luzyanin, leading researcher of the institute Vladimir Matveyev and Xiamen University professor Larisa Smirnova.
On March 17, 2015, RIAC hosted expert meeting "Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Model 2014-2015" to discuss the same name working paper authored by Acting Director of RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies Sergey Luzyanin, leading researcher of the institute Vladimir Matveyev and Xiamen University professor Larisa Smirnova.
The event was moderated by RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and attended by Mikhail Konarovsky, leading researcher of MGIMO Center for East Asian Studies and SCO, senior researcher of the Center Igor Denisov, Center Deputy Head Anatoly Klimenko, as well as working paper coauthors Dr. Luzyanin and Dr. Matveyev.
The analysts discussed the SCO role in the modern system of international relations, key challenges and threats in Central Asia, prospects for the SCO expansion and development of its economic and humanitarian components. The participants also summed up the outcomes of the 10th SCO forum held on March 11-12 in Khanty-Mansiysk under the chair of MGIMO Center for East Asian Studies.
Expert meeting "Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Model 2014-2015"