About forty experts and political analysts from Pakistan, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Tajikistan, India and Uzbekistan attended the 17th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Forum meeting.

According to SCO Secretariat, SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming spoke at the opening ceremony of the meeting held via video conference in Beijing.

The participants discussed three main subjects in detail, more intensive interaction between the SCO states in the field of international security, economic cooperation matters and expanded cultural and humanitarian cooperation.