Belarusian MPs ratify SCO agreement on universal center for countering threats

MINSK, 13 March (BelTA) – At a meeting of the third session of the House of Representatives, Belarusian deputies ratified the agreement on the Universal Center for Countering Security Challenges and Threats to the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BelTA has learned.

The agreement was signed in Tianjin on 1 September 2025.

According to the Standing Commission on National Security of the House of Representatives, the agreement proposes establishing the SCO Universal Center for Countering Security Challenges and Threats in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on the basis of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure. The center’s structure will include an Information Security Center, as well as a Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, which will function as a branch and structural subdivision of the Universal Center located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Belarus proposes designating the following competent authorities responsible for cooperation with the Universal Center: the State Security Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the State Border Committee, the Operations and Analysis Center under the President of the Republic of Belarus, and the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee. The coordinating authority is proposed to be the State Security Committee.