AKIPRESS.COM - According to Liu Bin, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) heads of state will be held in China from August 31 to September 1. Leaders from more than 20 countries are expected to attend.

Invited participants include:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin;

• Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov;

• Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev;

• Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev;

• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko;

• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi;

• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian;

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan;

• Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif;

• Tajik President Emomali Rahmon;

• Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh;

• Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev;

• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan;

• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet;

• Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu;

• Nepalese Prime Minister Sharma Oli;

• Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly;

• Chairman of Turkmen Halk Maslahaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov;

• Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto;

• Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith;

• Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim;

• Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

The leaders will discuss key issues of multilateral cooperation within the SCO framework, as well as regional and international political matters. Following the Tianjin summit, Kyrgyzstan will take over the SCO chairmanship, and President Japarov will present the priorities of Kyrgyzstan's upcoming leadership during the summit, according to Sagynbek Abdumutalip, Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration.