Xi Jinping to attend SCO summit hosted by India nearly on July 4

By Reuters: China’s President Xi Jinping will attend and ship a speech at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) by way of video hyperlink on July 4, the Chinese overseas ministry mentioned on Friday.

India, because the chair nation of this yr’s summit of the SCO Council of Heads of State, introduced in May that it might maintain the occasion in a digital format.

Defence and overseas ministers of the bloc attended in-person conferences in India this yr.

The SCO is a political and safety union of nations spanning a lot of Eurasia, together with China, India and Russia.

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Formed in 2001 by Russia, China and former Soviet states in Central Asia, the physique has been expanded to incorporate India and Pakistan, with a view to enjoying an even bigger position as counterweight to Western affect within the area.

Kazakhstan will take over the presidency of the SCO after the July summit.