Tashkent: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to conduct bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand.
According to sources close to the newswire agency ANI claimed that the meeting is “almost fixed” and is likely to occur on the SCO summit’s sidelines.
This will be the first meeting between PM Modi and the Russian President post the Ukraine crisis. However, the two leaders have spoken to each other over the phone after the Ukraine crisis.
The report further added that a meeting will likely be held between Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the SCO summit.
The Indian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat said, “Leaders of SCO member countries are meeting after two years due to the COVID pandemic. Some bilateral meetings will take place on the sidelines of the SCO but the programme of the meetings will be finalized in due course,”.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi are also expected to attend the summit. Uzbekistan is the chair of SCO 2022 and India will be the next chair of the SCO.
(With Agency Inputs)