BEIJING, June 30 (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping will attend and deliver a speech at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) via video link on July 4, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.
India, as the chair nation of this year's summit of the SCO Council of Heads of State, announced in May that it would hold the event in a virtual format.
The SCO is a political and security union of countries spanning much of Eurasia, including China, India and Russia.
Kazakhstan will take over the presidency of the SCO after the July summit.
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