“A
senior Russian official says his country throws its weight behind
Iran’s 'beneficial' membership in the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO). Zamir Nabiyevich Kabulov told Russia’s RIA
Novosti news agency that the SCO will benefit from the full
membership of Iran, Pakistan and India in its current composition.”
“Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last month that the criteria for
adding new members to the SCO were approved during the 2014 summit in
Tajikistan and that more applications for membership will be
reviewed.”
“The
SCO is an intergovernmental organization which seeks to strengthen
mutual trust and good-neighborliness between the member countries;
facilitate their effective cooperation in political, trade-economic,
scientific-technical and cultural areas as well as in education,
energy, transport, tourism, environmental protection; joint
maintenance of peace, security and stability in the region; towards
the creation of a democratic, just and rational international
political and economic order. It was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by
the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan. Iran, along with four other countries, currently holds
observer status in the organization.”
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