SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming met with the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Maldives to the People's Republic of China Dr. Fazil Najib on September 6, 2024.
The Secretary General congratulated Ambassador Najib on his appointment and underlined that the SCO emphasized strengthening contacts with the Maldives as one of the SCO Dialogue Partners. Zhang Ming expressed the readiness to provide the Maldives with the necessary assistance in case of its further participation in cooperation mechanisms with the SCO.
The Ambassador noted that the Maldivian side highly appreciated the work of the SCO and expressed readiness to strengthen friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation with it.
The Memorandum on granting the Republic of Maldives the status of an SCO Dialogue Partner was signed on May 5, 2023 in Goa on the sidelines of the Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the SCO Member States.