DUSHANBE, June 28, Asia-Plus  — Energy ministers of member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss questions of setting up the energy club of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at a meeting in Moscow on June 29, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy reports.

The SCO energy club must become a center for information and debating for all-round discussion of energy strategies of the SCO member countries and matters of interaction in international markets.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formed in 2001 as the successor to the Shanghai Five. The organization includes six countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.  Bilateral and multilateral commercial and economic cooperation, including the development of joint projects in the development of oil-and-gas deposits in Central Asia, is among the questions of interaction.