Tun Mon Thet (NP News) – May 6

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar has moved a step closer with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) signing the memorandum for accession to the SCO as the dialogue partner.

Myanmar Ambassador to India, Moe Kyaw Aung and the Secretary-General of the SCO, Zhang Ming signed it on May 5 at the sidelines of the meeting of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers at Goa, India, according to the press release by the Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Together with, the United Arab Emirates, the State of Kuwait and the Republic of Maldives were granted SCO partner status on the day. 

The geopolitically strategic Southeast Asian country, as well as a member of the ASEAN, Myanmar was accepted by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a dialogue partner on September 16th, 2022 on the last day of the SCO Summit held in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand.