Official Names
The official working languages of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation are Chinese and Russian. The official names of the organisation in the two languages, abbreviations in parentheses, are:
Chinese:
- Simplified Chinese: 上海合作组织 (上合组织)
- Romanisation: Shànghǎi Hézuò Zǔzhī (Shàng Hé Zǔzhī)
Russian:
- Cyrillic: Шанхайская организация сотрудничества (ШОС)
- Romanisation: Shankhayskaya organizatsiya sotrudnichestva (ShOS)
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