Myanmar granted dialogue partner status of Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The memorandum on granting the Republic of the Union of Myanmar the status of a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was signed by U Moe Kyaw Aung, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Republic of India, and Mr Zhang Ming, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on 5 May 2023, at the sidelines of the Meeting of SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) at Goa, India on 4-5 May 2023.
At the signing ceremony, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Maldives also signed the MoU with the SCO Secretariat along with Myanmar.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization which established on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China. SCO currently comprises eight full-fledged members (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). SCO mainly focuses on promoting effective cooperation in politics, trade, environment protection, culture, education, energy and transport areas among the member countries. — MNA