As India, Pakistan join SCO summit, what does its expansion mean?
2018-06-08 09:27:34 source：CGTN
June 7, 2018
India and Pakistan completed the process of joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on June 9, 2017, at the summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
It marked the first membership expansion of the SCO since its founding in 2001.
India and Pakistan were previously admitted as observers in 2005.
At the 2015 summit in Ufa, Russia, the decision to admit the two Asian neighbors was announced. The process was completed in two years.
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