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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday proposed that members of the 10-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) should sell joint bonds, a step that would mark a major deepening of their economic cooperation.

At a summit of the group in China, Putin also floated the idea of a joint payments system for trade settlements.

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The SCO, set up in 2001, is the successor to the Shanghai Five, a grouping of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, set up in 1996. It now also includes India, Pakistan, Iran, Belarus and Uzbekistan.

“We advocate the issuance of joint bonds of member states,” Putin told SCO heads of state in China’s northern port city of Tianjin.

He also said he supported “the creation of our own payment, settlement and depository infrastructure” and “the formation of a bank of joint investment projects”.

“All this will increase the effectiveness of our economic exchanges and protect them from fluctuations in the external environment,” Putin said.

Russia has been pushing for settlement mechanisms which avoid the U.S. dollar and the euro, after Western sanctions on payment systems and Chinese banks disrupted Russian trade following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Putin said the SCO economies had grown on average by 5% in 2024.

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