Web Desk(May 28, 2018): Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Monday.
The summit is scheduled for June 9 to 10 in Qingdao, a coastal city in east China’s Shandong Province.
Leaders of SCO member states and observer states, as well as chiefs of various international organizations, will attend the summit, Wang said at a press conference on the summit in Beijing.
This is the first SCO summit since the expansion of the SCO in June 2017 at the Astana summit in Kazakhstan, when India and Pakistan were accepted as full members.
It is the second major diplomatic event China is going to host in 2018, following the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in April.
According to Wang, Xi will exchange views on the current and future development of the SCO, cooperation in all areas under the new situation, as well as on major international and regional issues, with leaders of the other seven member states, four observer states, and chiefs of the international organizations.
Xi will sign the Qingdao Declaration and a dozen agreements on security and economic cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges with leaders of other member states, according to Wang.
The president will also invite foreign delegates to a welcoming banquet and a display of fireworks and lights, he said.
On the sidelines of the summit, Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to China at the invitation of Xi.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will pay a working visit to China.
Xi will hold bilateral meetings with other leaders during the summit, Wang added.
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