PM Modi will attend the two-day 22nd meeting of SCO!
New Delhi: On Friday, 16 September 2022, PM Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a regional summit in Uzbekistan's Samarkand.
Mr. Putin and PM Modi will attend the two-day 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) that begins on Thursday.
This is the first in-person summit in two years, shaking off the Covid fears and providing a rare opportunity for all its eight heads of state to meet on the sidelines of the event to have face-to-face talks on pressing global and regional issues of common concern.
"Russian President Putin is going to participate in the forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit including Prime Minister Modi. We've already announced that there will be several meetings in Samarkand, including with PM Modi," Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov told ANI.
Earlier, the official Russian news agency TASS had quoted Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov as saying, "A conversation on the international agenda with Modi will also take place.
The sides will discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific Region, and, of course, cooperation within major multilateral formats, such as the UN, the G20 and the SCO."
"This is particularly very important, because India will preside in the UN Security Council in December, and, in 2023, India will lead the SCO and will also chair the G20," Mr. Ushakov told reporters on Tuesday.
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