The Memorandum on granting the Republic of the Union of Myanmar the
status of dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was
signed by U Moe Kyaw Aung, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Republic of India, and Mr. Zhang
Ming, Secretary-General of Shanghai Cooperation Organization on 5 May 2023,
at the sidelines of the Meeting of SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) at
Goa, India on 4-5 May 2023.
At the signing ceremony, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Maldives also
signed the MoU with the SCO Secretariat along with Myanmar.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental
organization which established on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China. SCO
currently comprises 8 full-fledged members (China, India, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). SCO mainly focuses on
promoting effective cooperation in politics, trade, environment protection, culture, education, energy and transport areas among the member countries.
Source: Facebook Page of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar