Flags lowered to half-staff in SCO Secretariat building

The flags of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are lying half-staff in the headquarters of the Organization in honor of the victims of the Kostenko coal mine accident in Karaganda region, Kazakhstan, Kazinform Agency reports.

The ceremony of lowering the SCO countries' flags took place in Beijing today morning.
The SCO headquartered in Beijing initially included Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan joined the Organization in 2017, and Iran became a member of the SCO this year.