The leaders of the member countries of the Shanghai cooperation organization (SCO) signed the document on the final adoption of its constituent Pakistan and India. This is stated on the organization’s website.
SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov said that the organization becomes “a Central and cohesive structure in Eurasia”. “The SCO has successfully passed the test of time, and principles of organization have become close and understandable to millions of people on the planet,” he concluded.
On 7 June, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that Moscow supports the plan of membership in the SCO Iran.
Iran has applied to join the organization in 2008. However, before take it, SCO was impossible, because Tehran was subject to UN sanctions.
The SCO is an international organization founded in 2001 by the leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. A Memorandum on the membership of India and Pakistan was signed in June 2016 at the summit in Uzbekistan.