Iran Attends SCO Meeting of Security Officials
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Akbar Ahmadian has traveled to Kazakhstan to take part in the 19th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) National Security Council Secretaries.
Heading a delegation, Ahmadian has traveled to Astana at the invitation of his Kazakh counterpart.
Astana is hosting the 19th meeting of the SCO National Security Council Secretaries on April 2 and 3.
While Iran is taking part in the event as a full SCO member state for the first time, Mongolia and Belarus have been invited to join the event as SCO observer states.
The participants in the meeting are expected to discuss interaction in the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism, illegal drug trafficking, transnational organized crimes, as well as cooperation within multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the spokesperson for the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Aibek Smadiyarov also unveiled plans to sign a protocol of the meeting of the SCO National Security Council Secretaries on common approaches for development of multilateral partnership in regional and international security.
