Images of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko arriving at the SCO summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, as his country seeks Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) membership. The SCO -- made up of China, India, Pakistan, Russia and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- was set up in 2001 as a political, economic and security organisation to rival Western institutions.

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