The United Nations General Assembly has proposed that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should take part in its sessions and activity as an observer.

The proposal is contained in a resolution approved without voting by the delegates to the 59th session of the UN General Assembly at the assembly?s plenary meeting on Thursday.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional alliance of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The heads of state of these six countries signed a declaration on its formation in Shanghai on 15 June 2001.

The aim of the organization is to stabilize the situation in Central Asia, consolidate friendship and good-neighborly relations among the member-states, and develop cooperation in the political, economic, scientific and other spheres.

The area occupied by the SCO member-countries amounts to more than three-fifths of the entire territory of the Eurasian mainland with a population equaling nearly one-fourth of the earth?s population.

The General Assembly has expressed a wish to facilitate cooperation between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.