The holy city of Varanasi, showcasing India\u2019s culture and traditions over the ages, will be declared the first \u201cCultural and Tourism Capital\u201d of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Secretary-General of the bloc Zhang Ming said here on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Beijing-headquartered Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an eight-member economic and security alliance comprising China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ming said Varanasi will become the \u201cCultural and Tourism Capital\u201d of the SCO for 2022-23 under a new rotating initiative by the eight-member organisation to promote people-to-people contacts and tourism among the member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are about to implement a rotating mechanism. We will rotate the title of \u2018Cultural and Tourism Capital\u2019 among the member states,\u201d he said, adding that Varanasi, India\u2019s ancient city, will be the first to be granted the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under this initiative, each year, a city of the cultural heritage of a member country that will take over the rotating Presidency of the organisation will get the title to highlight its prominence, Mr. Ming told presspersons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Under this initiative, each year, a city of the cultural heritage of a member country that will take over the rotating Presidency of the organisation will get the title to highlight its prominence. The holy city of Varanasi, showcasing India\u2019s culture and traditions over the ages, will be declared the first \u201cCultural and Tourism Capital\u201d … Continue reading Varanasi to be first \u2018Cultural and Tourism Capital\u2019 of SCO: Secretary General Zhang Ming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,16,189,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-business-economy","category-records-in-asia","category-records-commonwealth-nations","category-records-india-national","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15927,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15926\/revisions\/15927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}