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Putin to meet regional security officials

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states' secretaries of national security councils today, according to the Kremlin press service. The meeting will take place in the runup to the annual meeting of the SCO member states' security councils, during which they will discuss issues concerning security in the SCO region.