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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) consists of Russia and China, as well as the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
The drill starts in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and then moves on to Russia's Chelyabinsk Oblast, where it concludes on August 17.
Chinese President Hu Jintao will be a guest at the exercise in the Chelyabinsk region.
Hu is scheduled to visit Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia from August 14 to 18. He will attend an SCO summit scheduled for August 16 in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek.
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Posted August 8th, 2007 by Dinka
