India to host SCO summit: Who is attending, what to expect?

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India is set to host a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on Tuesday. The SCO, comprising India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is an influential economic and security bloc and has emerged as one of the largest transregional international organisations. The SCO was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Pakistan became its permanent member along with India in 2017. But who is attending the summit? And what can we expect? Let’s take a closer look: Who is attending? India, which assumed the...