Rouhani started a 5-day tour of Central Asia on Monday, which took him first to Kazakhstan.
During his stay in Astana, the Iranian president held several meetings with high-ranking Kazakh officials, including President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Prime Minister Karim Masimov and Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov.
During Rouhani’s official visit to Astana, ministers from Iran and Kazakhstan signed a number of agreements on mutual trade and diplomatic interaction.
Now in Tajikistan’s Dushanbe, Rouhani will take part in the 14th summit meeting of the SCO.
The SCO is a political, economic and military organization which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Mongolia are observer states of the SCO.