The most detailed tally, carried by Bishkek's Economist.kg, puts the total at 28: 24 documents signed at the level of heads of state and 4 more between governments. Signed at the heads' level: the anniversary declaration, the charter amendments, the statute of a Universal Center for countering challenges and threats to member states' security, and regulations for the executive committee of a new Anti-Drug Center.
The declaration itself reads as legal consolidation. It records 25 years of a “solid legal foundation”, opposes unilateral coercive measures that contradict the UN Charter, and comes out against the militarization of information technology.
The money lines are quieter. Members endorsed a roadmap for a gradual rise of national currencies in mutual settlements and recorded progress toward an SCO Development Bank, a formula short of a founding act. The security architecture thickens on paper while the bank remains a line about progress.
The sectoral texts run long: anti-narcotics and information-security programs to 2030, a biodiversity initiative to 2031, a “Green Technology Corridor” to 2030, a ports-and-logistics plan, and a concept for data centers and an AI industry.
“The security architecture thickens on paper while the bank remains a line about progress.”
For the region the currencies roadmap lands on live practice: KazMunayGas built the order book for its yuan bond on the AIX last week, with settlement due 2 September.
The bilateral layer was still printing at our close. Outcomes of Putin's meetings scheduled for the day, Erdogan and Pashinyan among them, had not surfaced in the wires by 16:00 Moscow.