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Baku /04.07.23/Turan: On Tuesday, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) officially announced Iran's entry into the ranks of the member countries of the association. The decision on this was made at the 23rd summit of the organization under the chairmanship of India, TASS reports.
Iran has become the ninth member of the interstate association. In September 2022, a memorandum on Iran's commitments to join the organization was signed at the SCO summit in Samarkand.
The SCO was founded on June 15, 2001 in Shanghai. At first, the organization consisted of six countries - Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, in 2017 India and Pakistan joined them. ----06B----
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