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Cooperation with SCO to create new opportunities for Azerbaijan

31 July 2015 [14:47] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Aynur Karimova

Azerbaijan's cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will create new opportunities for the country, Hikmet Hajiyev, the spokesman for Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said on July 30.

"Azerbaijan’s foreign policy is multi-vector, and in this respect the country is further expanding cooperation on bilateral and multilateral bases," he noted.

Hajiyev also noted that in this context, it is possible to highlight Azerbaijan’s observer status in the Arab League, African Union, Organization of American States, and other regional and international organizations, which creates even greater opportunities for the country to develop relations with multilateral organizations and their member states.

The heads of the SCO member states signed documents providing Azerbaijan with the status of SCO dialogue partner at an expanded meeting of SCO Council of Heads of State held in Ufa, Russia on July 10.

"Azerbaijan’s relations with the SCO should be considered through the prism of mechanisms of cooperation with other regional organizations, in which the country doesn’t have a membership," he added.

The SCO is a permanent intergovernmental organization founded on June 15, 2001 by the leaders of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Experts believe that Azerbaijan's membership to SCO is beneficial for the country. Being one of the newest dialogue partners to the SCO, Azerbaijan will take advantage of its position to strengthen the economic, trade, and political ties with the organization that represents a significant majority of the Eurasian territories.

All SCO member countries will have an opportunity to learn from the best practices of Azerbaijan, which has invested so much of its own resources in connecting Europe and Asia by developing regional projects in the energy, agriculture, logistics infrastructure, and public transportation sectors.

Azerbaijan can also play a significant role in the development of relations – particularly in expanding the transportation corridor – between the SCO and the EU countries via Central Asia and Turkey. It is also expected that Azerbaijan's membership in the SCO would give the country more opportunities to interact with China and Central Asian countries much more closely.

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