The UAE’s first step to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Sputnik news agency quoted the UAE state news agency (WAM) as reporting that the UAE has officially received the status of dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Dialogue partner status will be the first step before full membership is granted to the United Arab Emirates to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the medium term.
In April of this year, the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia approved the memorandum granting the status of “dialogue partner” to this country in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The Saudi Council of Ministers, in its meeting chaired by King Salman bin Abdulaziz of this country, agreed to the memorandum of association of the country to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a dialogue partner.
Vas news agency did not give further explanations about this decision and only devoted one paragraph of the minutes of the final meeting of the Council of Ministers to it. However, the Reuters news agency, citing knowledgeable sources, reported that Saudi Arabia’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was discussed during the recent visit of the Chinese president to Riyadh last December.
The Saudi Council of Ministers also mandated the Minister of Energy and the chairman of the board of directors of the country’s nuclear and renewable energy settlement, King Abdullah Settlement, to negotiate with the International Atomic Energy Agency about a draft Fimabin agreement.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an international and Eurasian organization that was founded in the form of a political, economic and military alliance in the city of Shanghai, China on June 15, 2001 by 6 countries: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. After that, India and Pakistan also joined this organization as full members on June 9, 2017 at the Astana meeting.
