Armenian Ambassador about SCO membership and development of  cooperation with China

ArmInfo. Armenia's decision to apply for joining the SCO is marked by both continuity and change, as stated by Armenian Ambassador to China Vahe Gevorgyan in an interview with CGTN about the country's motivation for joining the framework.

He recalled that back in 2016, Armenia already became a partner for  dialogue, and in this regard, it has already had the opportunity to  establish good working relations with the secretariat, as well as  with the key states of this organization.

"As for our foreign policy approaches in this regard, I would like to  note that we are trying to diversify our relations with key countries  of the world, major countries of the world, but also with  multilateral organizations. We believe in multilateral diplomacy, and  we believe in multilateralism. In short, we are applying with firm,  resolve and determination to share principles, spirits, and to work  together with all key countries," Gevorgyan said.

Touching upon the Armenian-Chinese bilateral relations, Gevorgyan  noted that Yerevan and Beijing are approaching to the strategic  relations, to strategic cooperation with China. According to him,  this cooperation will be based on mutual interests and mutual  respect.

"We hope to reach a new quality beginning of our relations very soon.  Armenia is interested in augmenting our bilateral trade, which is  already growing rapidly. We are also very interested to make China  part of ours connectivity  projects  and  to give more opportunities  for infrastructure development of Armenia by the involvement of  China," he noted.