{"id":195912,"date":"2022-07-16T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=195912"},"modified":"2022-07-16T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T13:03:41","slug":"iran-and-belarus-to-be-new-sco-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iran-and-belarus-to-be-new-sco-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Belarus to be new SCO members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cIran and Belarus to be new SCO members\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 16th July 2022<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) grouping.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Click Here to read about it<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Members of SCO:<\/b><\/p>\n

China, Russia and four Central Asian states \u2014 Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tajikistan \u2014 were the founding member of the SCO while India and Pakistan joined the <\/span>SCO in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 2021 SCO summit in Dushanbe, the members of SCO agreed to admit Iran as a member while Belarus has also begun the membership process.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the reason behind the expansion of SCO?<\/b><\/h5>\n

China and Russia are looking to frame the SCO as a counter to the West \u2014 particularly\u00a0<\/span>after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, China has also drawn a sharp contrast between SCO and NATO. It said that SCO is a cooperative organization based on non-alignment and not targeting a third party. On the other hand, NATO is based on Cold War thinking. The logic of NATO is to create new enemies to sustain its own existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the upcoming summits of SCO?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The 2022 <\/span>annual summit of the SCO will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2023 SCO summit will be hosted by India.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Varanasi has been selected as the SCO region\u2019s first \u201cTourism and Cultural Capital\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIran and Belarus to be new SCO members\u201d published in The Hindu on 16th July 2022 What is the News? Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) grouping. What is Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)? Click Here to read… Continue reading Iran and Belarus to be new SCO members<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-195912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700811587,"cached_date":1701412005},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}