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Xi Jinping will go on his first foreign trip after Kovid-19.
He will attend the ongoing SCO Summit in Samarkand.
Xi Jinping’s last foreign visit was to Myanmar in 2020.
Beijing. China said on Tuesday that this week Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) President Xi Jinping’s foreign visit to attend the summit ‘Safe and successful’ It is working with allies to build up more than two years since the coronavirus pandemic began Going abroad for the first time. He will travel to Kazakhstan on Wednesday, where he will hold talks with his counterpart Kasim-Jomart Tokayev. Later, they will travel to Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan. Jahan will attend the SCO summit on September 15-16.
The headquarter of SCO is in Beijing. Why are these eight countries? economic and security organization Hai, which includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to attend the two-day conference.
Other leaders from the conference will meet with Putin and other leaders. However, Beijing is yet to officially announce Xi’s event in Samarkand. People’s concern is whether the Covid protocol will be followed during his first foreign trip after more than two years and whether he will be in mandatory quarantine upon his return.
Asked at a press conference here on Tuesday what steps China is taking to protect them from Kovid-19 and whether they will follow Beijing’s mandatory quarantine rules on their return? Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said Beijing was working with allies to make their visit safe and successful. ‘Zero Covid’ Under the policy, people traveling outside China are required to spend seven days in mandatory isolation at designated centers upon arrival, followed by three days at home. Xi (69) has not traveled abroad since January 2020 due to security concerns related to the pandemic. He had gone to Myanmar on his last foreign trip.
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First Published: September 13, 2022, 19:31 IST
