Sri Lanka signs MoU creating SCO Energy Club
24 January, 2014
H E Udayanga Weeratunga, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation signed on 24 January 2014 the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Memorandum of Understanding creating Energy Club, on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka. The Energy Club is an open multilateral platform for development and expansion of co-operation in energy area within and beyond the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a intergovernmental international organization creation of which was proclaimed on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai (China) by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The main goals of the SCO are strengthening mutual confidence and good-neighborly relations among the member countries; promoting effective cooperation in politics, trade and economy, science and technology, culture as well as education, energy, transportation, tourism, environmental protection and other fields; making joint efforts to maintain and ensure peace, security and stability in the region, moving towards the establishment of a new, democratic, just and rational political and economic international order. Sri Lanka is a dialogue partner of the SCO.
The Presidency of the Energy Club rotates between the members of the SCO and Republic of Kazakhstan is its President for the year 2014. Mr Talyad Aliev, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation was present at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding
