SCO Summit 2018: Xi Jinping to host welcome banquet for leaders in Qingdao
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will welcome Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders and other guests to a banquet in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on Saturday evening, to mark the opening of the 18th SCO Summit.
This is the first SCO summit following the body’s first expansion in June 2017 at the Astana summit in Kazakhstan when India and Pakistan were granted full memberships.
Scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, leaders of the eight SCO member states and the four observer states, as well as heads of international organizations, will exchange their views on cooperation.