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Belarus to be given partner status on SCO dialogue

28 April 2010 01:34 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The memorandum on granting Belarus the status of a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be signed on Wednesday in the capital Minsk, a Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, APA reports quoting RÄ°A Novosti.
"The memorandum fixes the directions of interaction between Belarus and the SCO," the spokesman said, adding that the document will be signed as part of the SCO Secretary General Muratbek Imanaliyev’s visit.
Imanaliyev will meet with Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov.
The Belarusian ministry said the decision on the dialogue partner status was made in June 2009. The status envisions that interested states can join the SCO activity on some directions as well as participate in working groups.
The SCO regional security group comprises Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, which took over the rotating chair of the organization last year. Iran, India, Mongolia and Pakistan have observer status.