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Chinese PM to visit Russia

06 November 2011 00:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will visit Russia on November 6-8, the Chinese Foreign Ministry reported, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.

Wen will attend a prime ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the northwestern Russian city of St. Petersburg on November 7 and hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry official said representatives of Mongolia, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and a number of international organizations, including the CIS, a loose alliance of former Soviet republics, will attend the talks.

Established in Shanghai in 2001, the SCO is a mutual security organization comprising six countries: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran are observers. Afghanistan applied for SCO membership in 2011.