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SCO Meet to Host 20 Leaders Including Modi, Putin: China
Mint New Delhi
|August 23, 2025
China is this year's chair of 10-member group; Xi to elaborate on China's new vision for SCO
China on Friday said the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit to be held in Tianjin later this month will be the largest in the bloc's history, with 20 world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attending it.
The Tianjin meeting of the 10-member grouping from 31 August-1 September is the fifth summit being hosted by China. It will be the largest in SCO history, China's assistant foreign minister Liu Bin told a media briefing.
Besides Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the summit will be attended by Modi and a host of world leaders, Liu said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh are other prominent leaders to attend the summit, he said. From the subcontinent, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu will attend the summit, Liu said.
This story is from the August 23, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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