Turkey to Chair Energy Club of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) 2017 . The 2017 Energy Club of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be chaired by Turkey which is the first non-SCO country to do so. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey proposed to chair the Energy Club 2017 which was accepted in a meeting on November 22, 2016, by Russia and China and Turkey was
elected to chair the Energy Club in 2017. Before this only members of the SCO chaired the presidency of the Energy Club in turn.
iv. The Turkish Energy Ministry will be the General Secretary of the Energy Club for one year.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)
♦ It is a Eurasian political, economic and military organization and also known as Shanghai Pact.
♦ It was founded in 2001 with China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as its full fledged members
♦ Apart from SCO’s original members, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Mongolia, Belarus and Sri Lanka are the members of the SCO Energy Club.
♦ The SCO Energy Club brings together some of the world largest energy producers, namely turkey-to-chair-energy-club-of-the-shanghai-cooperation-organisation-sco-2017Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, with the world’s largest energy consumers, such as China and India.
Turkey
♦ Capital: Ankara
♦ Currency: Turkish lira
♦ President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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