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The seventh BRICS summit is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday and the 15th meeting of the Council of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Heads of State for Thursday and Friday in Ufa, Russia.

It's the third time that President Xi has attended the BRICS summit.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping says coordination and cooperation on global and regional issues will be discussed.

"The leaders of the five countries will hold a series of small scale meetings to exchange views on cooperation as well as regional and international issues of common concern and then jointly issue the Ufa Declaration after the summit. During the meeting, they will also hold dialogues with the delegates from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Eurasia Economic Union, as well as other international organizations."

The Chinese side has also expressed confidence on economic cooperation among the BRICS countries, saying the newly established development bank and emergency reserve arrangement have given fresh impetus to growth.

"BRICS is an emerging market and cooperation platform for developing countries, emphasizing economy and development. It is neither a military alliance nor a political group. We are not against any third party and we have an open, transparent and win-win cooperation."

About the SCO summit, leaders at the meeting are slated to discuss the development strategy for the regional organization, and reinforced the joint commitment on drug control.

The decision on starting procedures for India and Pakistan to join the SCO is also scheduled to be adopted at the Ufa summit.

Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping says China welcomes SCO expansion, and will make its due contribution.

"China will keep taking its responsibility in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, will keep proposing initiative so that members of SCO may strengthen their security cooperation, ally their respective developing strategies together and also reinforce their cultural exchanges. China encourages all parties to take the summit as an opportunity to speed up a new round of development of SCO, to enhance the overall level of cooperation in various fields and to expand its international influence. "

During his stay there, President Xi Jinping will have bilateral meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

It's the second meeting between the two heads of state this year and the fifth over the past two years.

Topics of the meeting include plans to increase regional trade, bilateral cooperation within multilateral frameworks, and cooperation on global and regional issues.

A meeting between leaders from China, Russia, and Mongolia has also been scheduled.

For CRI, I'm Niu Honglin