On 8 July 2024, SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming met with Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus Ivan Prikhodko on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Forum on Green Development in Qingdao.
Secretary-General Zhang Ming congratulated his Belarusian colleague on Belarus’s official accession to the Organisation, praised its efforts in environmental initiatives, reaffirmed the Secretariat’s continued support for Belarus in enhancing SCO cooperation across various sectors, and expressed confidence that Minsk would contribute actively to promoting a healthy, green, and sustainable development agenda in the region.
The Minister highlighted that this marks Belarus’s first participation as a full member in an SCO event. The forum serves as a pivotal platform for Belarus to swiftly integrate into SCO collaborations focused on ecology and environmental protection. Belarus affirmed its readiness to cooperate with other member states to advance SCO initiatives in ecology and environmental protection, thereby fostering green development across the SCO region.