Foreign Ministry: Belarus is ready to step up international legal procedures for its accession to SCO

Belarus is ready to accelerate the international legal procedures for joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a full member. This was stated at the signing ceremony of the Protocol on the results of consultations between the SCO member-states and Belarus, BelTA informs with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The signing ceremony was held on January 17 in Varanasi (India) after consultations of the authorized representatives of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member-states and the authorized representative of Belarus. The event was attended by Igor Bely, head of the main department for Asia, Africa and Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.

Belarus has been a dialogue partner since 2010 and has had the status of an official SCO observer since 2015. The decision to start the procedure of admitting Belarus to the organization was made at the meeting of the Council of the Heads of the SCO Member States in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) in September 2022.