The Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) says it will consider Iran’s
application for the full-fledged membership immediately after the
sanctions against the country are lifted.
“The
conditions under which the country under the UN Security Council
sanctions cannot obtain the status of a full member have been
prescribed at the first stage of the SCO formation,” said SCO
Secretary General Dmitry Mezentsev.
“The
organization wishes success to Iran in the completion of work on
Iran's nuclear program to implement as expeditiously as possible the
necessary legal procedures for the sanctions’ lifting. I believe
that after this, the organization will immediately return to Iran's
application for a full member status,” Mezentsev has been
quoted by Sputnik news agency.
He noted
that cooperation with Tehran, especially in the last two or three
years, and the interest exhibited by the Iranian side created “the
basis of a new quality and depth of this country's cooperation with
the association.”
Moreover, in
accordance with the decision of the SCO heads of state adopted during
the Russian chairmanship, India and Pakistan will soon become the SCO
member states, Mezentsev stressed.
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