TEHRAN – Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref will attend the 24th Summit of Governments (Prime Ministers) Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held in Russia.
Alev is scheduled to fly to Moscow on Monday to attend a summit the next day.
The meeting of South African Prime Ministers will be held in Moscow on 17-18 November 2025. Aref will address the meeting and hold bilateral talks with senior officials from several participating countries.
As South Africa holds a government summit in Moscow, member states are poised to make a strategic push towards economic integration. Under Russia’s rotating chairmanship, the high-level meeting follows the landmark Tianjin summit three months ago and comes at a crucial time for Eurasian economic connectivity amidst a changing world order.
Headquartered in China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is the world’s largest regional bloc in terms of geographic scope and population. The nine member countries are Iran, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Iran became a full member of the SCO in July 2023. Today, the organization accounts for about one-third of the world’s GDP, about 40 percent of the world’s population, and nearly two-thirds of the Eurasian continent.