SCO achieves new progress with entry of India, Pakistan: Xi Jinping

Xi said as a trend towards multi-polarity and economic globalisation is deepening, there was a need to enhance cooperation among the SCO countries

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has made new progress after the entry of India and Pakistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday as he welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain to the eight-member grouping.
 
Prime Minister Modi and Pakistan President Hussain attended the summit for the first time after both countries were admitted as members of the Beijing-based Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) last year.
 
Xi, also host of the 18th SCO summit, in his opening remarks said that the presence of Prime Minister Modi and Pakistan President Hussain at the meeting here in the