DUSHANBE, December 16, 2013, Asia-Plus — The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Secretary-General Dmitry Mezentsev has arrived in Dushanbe on a two-day working visit, according to the president’s press center.
Today morning, he is scheduled to hold talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
While in Dushanbe, the SCO secretary general is expected to meet with high-ranking Tajik state officials to discuss the upcoming SCO summit that will take place in the Tajik capital in September 2014.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was founded in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, and currently has six full members — China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, Iran, Pakistan and India are four observer states, and SCO’s dialogue partners include Belarus, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
