A slew of foreign leaders took China’s signature high-speed railway from the northern port city of Tianjin to Beijing on Monday and Tuesday, having departed from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit to attend a
. Seven state leaders arrived on Monday night: President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko, Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Maldives Mohamed Muizzu, President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Arriving on Tuesday were Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, and Myanmar’s acting president, Min Aung Hlaing.
