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Russia hopes SCO countries will take part in anti-Japanese war Victory Day celebrations - ambassador

BEIJING, February 10. /TASS/. Moscow expects that other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will take an active part in the celebrations marking the Victory Day in the anti-Japanese war, Russia’s Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov said on Tuesday. Besides Russia and China, the SCO, a Eurasian political, economic and military organisation, founded in 2001, also includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. "Although at this time our chairmanship in the SCO will end, we hope that the Shanghai organisation will take the most active part in the events related to the anniversary of the victory in the anti-Japanese war," the ambassador said. Russian President Vladimir Putin could come to Beijing in early September to participate in the Chinese events marking the Victory Day in the anti-Japanese war, Denisov said. The standing committee of China’s National People's Congress set September 3 as the Victory Day in the anti-Japanese war. On September 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri, officially ending World War II. Chinese political scientists and historians have repeatedly said that this step comes amid attempts by some Japanese politicians to revise the results of World War II and deny the facts of aggression of the Japanese militarism in Asia. Read more

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