ISLAMABAD, May 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will represent Pakistan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit to be held in China next month, a Foreign Ministry source said on Saturday.

The meeting is expected to take up the issue of the organisation’s expansion.

The one-day head of the state summit will be held in Shanghai on June 15.

Pakistan has been invited to attend the meeting of the six-member regional security organisation as an observer nation.

India, Iran and Mongolia, who enjoy the same status, have also been invited to attend the summit.

Pakistan was accorded observer status at the SCO meeting last year in July. Islamabad and the other three observer countries are seeking full membership of the organisation.

The SCO groups China, Russia and the four Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.