Belarus expressed readiness to speed up implementation of procedures for joining SCO
In Indian Varanasi, the Head of the Main Directorate of Asia, Africa and Latin America of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus, Igor Bely, took part in the signing ceremony of the protocol following consultations between the authorised representatives of the SCO member states and the authorised representative of the Republic of Belarus – as reported in the Belarusian Foreign Ministry’s press service
During the event, the Belarusian side voiced its readiness to accelerate the implementation of international legal procedures for joining the SCO as a full member.
Since 2010, Belarus has been a dialogue partner, and since 2015 it has the status of an official SCO observer. The decision to start the procedure for admitting the Republic of Belarus to the organisation was made during a meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council in Samarkand in September 2022.
