Rome, 1 September (LaPresse) – The meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has begun in Tianjin, attended by, among others, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. TASS reports that, in addition to Putin, representing Moscow are Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Putin's assistant for international affairs, Yuri Ushakov.

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