![Member states of the SCO coloured in red](https://shared.prolewiki.org/uploads/thumb/0/07/SCO_Members.svg/300px-SCO_Members.svg.png)
Green: Observers
Light Green: Dialogue partners
Yellow: Upcoming dialogue partners
Blank: Guest
Light Yellow: Interested in partnership
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO; Chinese: 上海合作组织; Russian: Шанхайская организация сотрудничества) is a political, economic, and security alliance created on 2002 June in Shanghai, China. The original member states were China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan joined SCO as full members on 9 June 2017.