SCO to study Iran’s membership
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.
The SCO is an intergovernmental organization that was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Mongolia are observer states of the SCO while Turkey, Sri Lanka, and Belarus are “dialogue partners” of the organization.
In September, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the SCO member states seek to strengthen all-out relations with Iran.
“Today, all regional countries and members of the Shanghai [Cooperation] Organization (SCO) are interested in more and better relations with Iran in all fields, including economic ties,” President Rouhani told reporters in Tehran upon his return from a two-leg tour of Central Asia.
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