Baku is interested in increasing the status of a dialogue partner in the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to the observer. ” This was stated by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at a meeting with the heads of the Russian media at the club editors of the TASS.
President noted that Azerbaijan is already involved in a certain sense.
“We are a dialog partner for more than one year. This is the first step. The second step is observers. And we officially appealed to the SCO Secretariat several years ago in order to increase our status before the observer status, but, unfortunately, This question is still not resolved, “said the head of state.
According to Ilham Aliyev, during his contacts with the management of the SCO member countries, including Russia, it was said that there is no reason to unconditioning status.
“But this still does not happen by the reasons not known for us,” the president added.