SCO ready to include India, Pakistan as members
By Wu Jiao and Fu Jing in Ufa, Russia and Zhao Shengnan in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2015-07-11 07:45
The six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation decided on Friday to start procedures for India and Pakistan to join the group as full members.
It would be the first expansion since the group's establishment in 2001.
The summit, taking place in the Russian city of Ufa, also elevated Belarus to observer status, and took in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia and Nepal as dialogue partners to the group that aims to promote wide-ranging cooperation from economics to security.
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