OREANDA-NEWS  Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the signing of the protocol on amendments and additions to the Charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the relevant decree is posted on the official publication portal of legal acts.

"To accept the proposal of the Russian Foreign Ministry to sign a protocol on amendments and additions to the Charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization dated June 7, 2002. To allow the Russian Foreign Ministry, during negotiations on the signing of the said protocol, to make changes to its draft that are not of a fundamental nature," the text of the decree says.

In addition, the document provides for the signing of the protocol at a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.