On 6 July 2024, SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming met with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov at the SCO Secretariat. Mr Ryzhenkov arrived in Beijing to attend the fag-raising ceremony on the occasion of Belarus’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Zhang Ming wholeheartedly congratulated Belarus on becoming the 10th member state of the SCO and praised its support and active involvement in the SCO’s activities. He added that the SCO Secretariat would do its best to help Minsk adjust to SCO operations.
The Foreign Minister of Belarus thanked the SCO member states and Secretariat for their all-round assistance in granting full membership to his country. He pointed out that Belarus fully shared the SCO goals and principles and would do its best to make a constructive contribution to deepening interaction within the organisation.