Beijing (TDI): Leaders from more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit this year, being hosted by China in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1.
Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister, Liu Bin, said that this will be the fifth time that China is hosting the Summit, and the largest since the establishment of the organization. He also shared the lists of leaders who have been invited and are expected in Tianjin for the Summit.
The foreign leaders invited to attend the summit include:
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian
- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov
- Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon
- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh
- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev
- Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet
- Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu
- Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly
- Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov
- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
- General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president Thongloun Sisoulith
- Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
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Leaders of international organizations and multilateral mechanisms have also been invited to attend the summit. This list includes:
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
- SCO Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev
- Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Ularbek Sharsheev
- Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States Sergey Lebedev
- ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn
- Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov
- Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization Asad Khan
- Secretary-General of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia Kairat Sarybay
- Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakytzhan Sagintayev
- President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Jin Liqun
As the chair of the SCO for 2024-2025, China has turned the experience into a grand effort to forge connectivity, by arranging massive pre-Summit events where students, professionals, and government officials had a chance to actually come together and interact.
A series of events has preceded the Summit and now as the dates draw closer, China hopes to host largest-ever Summit. Being one of the founding members of the organization, China attaches great importance to its vision and goals.
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