Iran Press- Iran news: During the Monday meeting in Tehran, the head of Uzbekistan’s Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies and the future Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Vladimir Norov and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif conferred on bilateral and regional issues.
The two sides also emphasised the strengthening of relations between Iran and Uzbekistan in political, economic, cultural, transit and tourism fields.
Fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups was one of the issues that the two diplomats talked about.
Meanwhile, Zarif congratulated Norov on being elected as the new Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Norov was appointed to the post of SCO secretary general at a meeting of the SCO’s Council of Heads of State, which was held in China’s Qingdao in June.
For his part, the Uzbek diplomat expressed hope that cooperation between Iran and the SCO would expand during his term in office.
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan established the SCO, a Eurasian political, economic, and security grouping, in the early 2000s. India and Pakistan joined in 2017, and Iran has expressed hopes of joining.
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