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10:17, 15-Jun-2017
India, Pakistan officially become full SCO members
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India and Pakistan have officially joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
A flag-raising ceremony was held for the new members at the SCO headquarters in Beijing on Thursday. The ceremony was led by SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou and ambassadors from India and Pakistan.
The SCO was created as a permanent intergovernmental international organization in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, followed by the signing of the SCO Charter in St. Petersburg a year later.
India and Pakistan join China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the SCO, which now covers three-fifths of the Eurasian continent and nearly half of the world's population.
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