Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend virtual SCO summit hosted by India
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend virtual SCO summit hosted by India This is the first official announcement about Xi's participation in the SCO summit being hosted by India Beijing, June 30 Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend next week's virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) being hosted by India, an official announcement here said on Friday. At the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Xi will attend via video-conference in Beijing the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads meeting of the SCO on July 4 and deliver important remarks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a brief press release. The SCO was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan became its permanent members in 2017. India holds the rotating Presidency of the organisation this year. The SCO was fo...