The Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Rashid Alimov and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov signed the Memorandum for Azerbaijan SCO dialogue partner status, RIA Novosti reported.
Signing was held on Monday at the headquarters of the SCO in Beijing.
“Today, Azerbaijan has received, but rather designed the status of a dialogue partner. It is a great honor for us. The way our relationship started back in 2012, when the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent an official letter to the SCO with the idea that Azerbaijan has received the status SCO observer So, as you know, Azerbaijan’s ambitions is much higher than just the status of the dialogue … I think that today’s document, signed here, gives us the opportunity to start a dialogue with a very important, very interesting organization. “- said Mammadyarov .
The Secretary General of the SCO Rashid Alimov, in turn, noted that the SCO is considering the signing of the memorandum, “as an important contribution to the further development of the organization”.
“dialogue partner status will allow the Republic of Azerbaijan actively involved in the multi-faceted and diverse activities of the organization through participation in existing mechanisms of cooperation “, -. Alimov said
The decision to grant Azerbaijan and Armenia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and dialogue partner status was adopted at the summit in Ufa in July last year.
The SCO includes Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. have observer status, Belarus, Mongolia, India, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In July 2015, the SCO procedure of admission to the organization of India and Pakistan was launched. Chairmanship in the organization of the SCO summit in Ufa was transferred from Russia to Uzbekistan. SCO summit in 2016 will be held June 23-24 in Tashkent.
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