The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Media and Think Tank Summit opened on Thursday in Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan Province, bringing together more than 400 representatives from media outlets, international and regional organisations from SCO member states and dialogue partners.
The event is co-hosted by Xinhua, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Henan provincial government, under the guidance of China’s State Council Information Office.
It will run until July 27.
Azerbaijan is represented by officials from the Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC), the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), and the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC).
Opening remarks were delivered by Mo Gaoyi, Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the State Council Information Office of China; Fu Hua, President of Xinhua News Agency; and Peng Jinhui, Vice President of the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences.
The speakers stressed the importance of sustainable development and mutually beneficial cooperation in a changing global environment.
The summit announced its key outcome document, the “Zhengzhou Consensus,” focusing on upholding the “Shanghai Spirit” to promote peace, prosperity, and cross-national harmony. The event highlights the role of media and think tanks in strengthening people-to-people exchanges among SCO members.
Founded in 2001 in Shanghai by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, the SCO aims to boost political, economic, cultural, scientific, and educational cooperation; promote energy, transportation, tourism, and environmental protection; safeguard regional peace and stability; and encourage a democratic and equitable international order.
Azerbaijan became an SCO dialogue partner at the Ufa Summit in 2015. Under a memorandum signed in Beijing in 2016, Azerbaijan and the SCO agreed to cooperate on regional security and stability, including counter-terrorism, anti-extremism, and anti-separatism.
President Ilham Aliyev has taken part in the SCO summits in Samarkand in 2022 and Astana in 2024. During the Astana meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Aliyev to attend the SCO summit to be held in China in 2025.
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Global oil prices surpassed $119 a barrel on Monday (9 March, 2026), an almost four year high, as the Middle East conflict rumbled on.
China has urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve their dispute through dialogue after Chinese envoy Yue Xiaoyong met Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its eleventh day.
Iranian civilian and military officials have pledged their obedience to the new leader, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, with President Masoud Pezeshkian saying his leadership “will herald a new era of dignity and authority for the Iranian nation.”.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a hardline cleric with strong backing from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. His rise signals continuity in Tehran's anti-Western policies.
Global oil prices surpassed $119 a barrel on Monday (9 March, 2026), an almost four year high, as the Middle East conflict rumbled on.
Trump says the United States "don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won," targeting his criticism at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Israel continues to fire missles at strategic sites in Iran and Gulf regions report more strikes from Iran.
China has urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve their dispute through dialogue after Chinese envoy Yue Xiaoyong met Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its eleventh day.
Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader on Monday (9 March), signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel.
U.S. President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke by phone on Sunday as tensions between Washington and Westminster deepened over the conflict involving Iran. The call came less than a day after Trump criticised Britain’s response to U.S. strikes on Iranian targets.
Norwegian police are searching for a suspect after an explosion at the U.S. embassy in Oslo on 8 March caused minor damage but no injuries, in what authorities say may have been a deliberate attack linked to the Middle East crisis.
An explosion damaged a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège early on Monday (9 March) in what authorities said was an antisemitic attack that caused damage but no injuries.
The Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers will meet on Monday to discuss a global rise in oil prices and a joint release of oil from emergency reserves coordinated by the International Energy Agency, the Financial Times reports.
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