Belarus became a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Documents on the country’s accession to the organization have been signed today at the SCO summit in Astana.
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that Belarus has promptly completed all the procedures necessary to obtain the status of a full member of the SCO.
The meeting is attended by heads of delegations of SCO member states and heads of permanent bodies of the organization.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organization founded by the leaders of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
On June 9, 2017, the leaders of the SCO member states signed a decision on the admission of India and Pakistan to the organization.
In 2021, at the SCO summit in Dushanbe, the process of raising Iran’s status within the Organization to the level of a member state was launched; in 2022, at the Samarkand SCO summit, a similar procedure was launched in relation to Belarus. Iran became a full member of the SCO at a summit in New Delhi in July 2023.
