The Iran Project: Iran�s Embassy in China announced that Iran's accession to the full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be finalized by April 2023.




"Based on the decision of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the SCO Member States, at the SCO summit in Samarkand on September 15-16, 2022, it will be decided to instruct the Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to sign a Memorandum of Obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to obtain the status of a member state of the SCO in Uzbekistan, where a first Memorandum of Obligations will be signed, then in April 2023 it will be finalized," the Iranian Embassy said in an exclusive reply to the Global Times inquiries regarding the matter.


"The adoption by the SCO Heads of State Council of the decision on granting to the Islamic Republic of Iran the status of a member state of the SCO at the SCO summit [will be finalized ]in 2023," the Iranian embassy added.




By ISNA