During the meeting, the two presidents called for expansion of cultural, sport, industrial and agricultural cooperation between Iran and Mongolia.
President Rohani arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to attend the 13th SCO Summit meeting at the invitation of his Kyrgyz counterpart.
The SCO is a Eurasian political, economic and military organization which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Except for Uzbekistan, the other countries had been members of the Shanghai Five, founded in 1996; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001, the members renamed the organization.
The Islamic Republic of Iran joined the organization as an observer member in 2012.
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