• ·Chinese President Hu will attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
• ·The first meeting of BRIC leaders, slated for June 16,
• ·Hu's first state visit to Russia, slated for June 16-18
• ·He will then pay state visits to Slovakia and Croatia from June 18 to June 20

·The SCO, a regional organization founded in 2001 in Shanghai, includes China, Russia and four central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

• ·The regional organization also groups four observers, namely Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran.
• ·President Hu arrives in Yekaterinburg for SCO summit, BRIC meeting
• ·Economic cooperation high on SCO summit agenda

• · The first meeting of BRIC leaders, slated for June 16, 
       will cover a wide range of issues, especially the 
       global financial and economic crisis, within its five-
       hour timetable, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said. 
  
• · "We expect the BRIC summit will expand strategic
       consensus, consolidate mutual trust, coordinate to 
       cope with the global financial and economic crisis 
       and lay out the blueprint for its future development," 
       He said. 

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