Regional Cooperation in Central Asia &Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Despite remarkable achievements in consolidating sovereignty and securing socio-economic progress in the 15 arduous years of state building, Central Asian Statesare still faced with many difficulties and they all tried to improve their govern-ance through joining regional cooperation so as to cope with the shock waves fromglobalization. Of these, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) standsout in its newideas, flexible style and vast vista, with its healthy growth hingingon carving out a niche for itself in the changeable regional and global context.