Uzbekistan: Lavrov meets with SCO counterparts in Tashkent

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov partook in the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Tuesday.
The meeting is being held in order to approve agenda of the upcoming SCO Heads of State Summit which will be held in Tashkent this June, as well as to discuss India's and Pakistan's potential admission to the organisation.
The SCO is a Eurasian political and economic organisation which was founded in 2001 by the leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The aim of SCO is to strengthen the political and economic cooperation between the participating countries.