MOSCOW, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) kicked off Thursday in Astana, with Belarus officially becoming a member of the association. The summit began with an official ceremony where all relevant documents for the country's membership were signed.
In June 2019, President Xi Jinping published a signed article in Tajikistan's leading newspaper Narodnaya Gazeta and state-run Khovar News Agency, emphasizing the deep bonds between China and Tajikistan as "good neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, good friends who trust each other with all sincerity, good partners engaged in win-win cooperation, and good brothers who support each other all the time." Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the fifth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, June 15, 2019.
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the Independence Palace in Astana, Kazakhstan, July 4, 2024. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) *During talks with Tokayev, Xi said that China stands ready to jointly build an even closer SCO community with a shared future with the SCO member states including Kazakhstan.
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the Independence Palace in Astana, Kazakhstan, July 4, 2024. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) ASTANA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping here Thursday called on the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to ensure security in the face of real threat from the Cold War mentality.
