Kazakh FM Mukhtar Tileuberdi attended the regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of SCO held in Moscow.
It was the first meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers since the COVID-19 outbreak, the Kazakh MFA’s press service reports.
It was purposed in particular to coordinate draft agenda and number of final documents of the SCO Summit. The FMs shared views on the pressing issues of regional and international agenda, debated SCO member states cooperation amid pandemic.
The ministers spoke for further enhancement of the role and place of the SCO, highlighted importance of development of mutual beneficial cooperation between SCO member nations and partners and observers, cooperation with international and regional organizations.
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told the press conference following the meeting of the Council that the sides debated the progress of elaboration of documents for the forthcoming Summit of the SCO member states, held consultations on pressing issues of the international and regional agenda.
Lavrov said that the Summit of the Heads of State of SCO will take place this November via a videoconferencing. SCO Chairmanship will pass to Tajikistan then.
The SCO was founded in 2001, according to Kazinform.
