Belarus set to become full member of SCO charter by 2024

It is planned that Belarus will join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the summer of 2024, SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming said.

"We expect that already at the Astana summit next year Minsk will become the tenth full member of the organisation," he announced, according to Interfax.

According to him, "Minsk is already participating in a number of mechanisms of the organisation, it is on the way to full membership, and this process is going well."

"According to the order of admission of new members, the next step should be the ratification of the said document by the Republic of Belarus. Then the applicant will join the Charter, the Shanghai Convention on Combating Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism of June 15, 2001, and a number of other international treaties and documents adopted within the SCO framework," the SCO Secretary-General said.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, international security and defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001.