Iran's President will attend 12th SCO summit in China

Iran's President will attend 12th SCO summit in China

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Sat Jun 2, 2012 11:5AM GMT

Apart from participating in the [SCO] summit, the Iranian president will hold talks with presidents of certain member and observer countries.”
Head of the presidential office’s international relations division Mohammad Reza Forqani

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will pay an official visit to China to attend the 12th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Head of the presidential office’s international relations division, Mohammad Reza Forqani, told reporters that President Ahmadinejad will leave Tehran for Beijing on Tuesday and participate in the SCO summit on June 6-7.

“Apart from participating in the [SCO] summit, the Iranian president will hold talks with presidents of certain member and observer countries,” he said.

He added that a number of ministers, including Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mehdi Ghazanfari, and their deputies will accompany the Iranian chief executive.

Ahmadinejad is also scheduled to hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Speaker of the National People's Congress on Friday, the Iranian official noted.

Forqani further said Iran and China will sign a memorandum of understanding on the expansion of bilateral cooperation.

The SCO is an intergovernmental security organization that was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Iran, India, Mongolia, and Pakistan are observer states in the SCO.