Azerbaijan has officially become a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), AzVision.az reports.
The memorandum was signed by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov on Monday at Beijing headquarter of SCO.
Azerbaijan joined Shanghai Cooperation Organization with the status of “Partner on Dialogue”. Links with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are one of the priorities for Azerbaijan’s foreign policy, Mammadyarov said.
"Azerbaijan will actively participate in the work of SCO and cooperate with the organization," he added.
The political decision to grant Azerbaijan the status of dialogue partner in SCO was made by the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in 2012.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a permanent intergovernmental organization founded on June 15, 2001 by the leaders of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The leaders of the SCO member-countries also decided to grant Belarus observer status, while Armenia, Cambodia and Nepal became dialogue partners.
Azerbaijan becomes dialogue partner in Shanghai Cooperation Organization
14 March 2016
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