Deputy foreign minister to represent Iran at SCO ministerial in Astana

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari will represent the Iranian side at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Astana instead of the deceased Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian.

Report informs via TASS that the meeting will start in about an hour. Members of delegations, as well as Kazakh and foreign journalists, are already arriving at the hotel where the meeting will take place.