{"id":236711,"date":"2023-06-05T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=236711"},"modified":"2023-06-02T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T05:07:29","slug":"iran-to-join-shanghai-cooperation-organization-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/06\/iran-to-join-shanghai-cooperation-organization-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">\n<blockquote><p><em>The next summit will be held on July 4 under the chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_236712\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Iranian-Foreign-Minister-Hossein-Amirabdollahian.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236712\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Iranian-Foreign-Minister-Hossein-Amirabdollahian-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Iranian-Foreign-Minister-Hossein-Amirabdollahian-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Iranian-Foreign-Minister-Hossein-Amirabdollahian.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-236712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. Jun. 1, 2023.<br \/>| Photo: Twitter\/@EurasiaReview<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>1 Jun 2023 &#8211; <\/em>Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said today that his country&#8217;s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be completed in early July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July, when the next summit of the association will be held,&#8221; Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said.<\/p>\n<p>The next summit will be held on July 4 under the chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a virtual format. According to the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all SCO members will participate in the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, Belarus, and Mongolia have been invited as observers, while Turkmenistan is participating as a guest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcdd\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7Iran to become member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July \u2014 Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian : Iran&#39;s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will be completed in July, the country\u2019s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Thursday.\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SVF2AiVzGW\" >pic.twitter.com\/SVF2AiVzGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udf10World News 24 \ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udf0f (@DailyWorld24) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyWorld24\/status\/1664322551181459473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >June 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Parliament passed a bill on the country&#8217;s accession to the SCO by an overwhelming majority in November 2022. All founding members of the SCO have given Iran the green light to become a permanent member.<\/p>\n<p>In September last year, the Uzbek city of Samarkand hosted the SCO summit, which was attended by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. On this occasion, Iran signed a memorandum of commitment to obtain member-state status in the association.<\/p>\n<p>The organization was founded in June 2001 by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It has since expanded its membership with the accession of India and Pakistan in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russia and Iran strengthen economic ties in the face of US sanctions\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPz58BB7oBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Iran-To-Join-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-In-July-20230601-0017.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Jun 2023 &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said today that his country&#8217;s accession to the SCO will be completed in the next summit on 4 Jul under the chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":221643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[239,742,1043],"class_list":["post-236711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-brics","tag-iran","tag-sco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236713,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236711\/revisions\/236713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}