SCO, BRICS countries invited to CIS Economic ForumFebruary 1, 2023 - 11:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The leaders of CIS have invited representatives of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS countries to take part in the Commonwealth Economic Forum to be held in Moscow in March, CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev told reporters on Tueaday, January 31. "The meeting of the Economic Council will be held in Moscow on March 17 simultaneously with the traditional economic forum of the CIS. We hope that there will be representatives of all Commonwealth countries, and we have also invited representatives of the SCO, BRICS countries and, of course, our partners from the EAEU [will also be there]," - Lebedev said. At present, the SCO includes Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Iran is in the process of joining the organization. Afghanistan and Mongolia have observer status. At the September 2022 SCO summit in Samarkand, a mechanism was launched for Belarus to join the organization, which currently has observer status. Dialogue partners are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Egypt, Cambodia, Qatar, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Sri Lanka. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |