SCO Summit 2022: PM Modi to hold bilateral talks Putin, Mirziyoyev and Raisi on the sidelines of the summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Samarkand on Thursday night and will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in person for the first time in two years on Friday in this historical Uzbek city.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and other leaders from the Central Asian nations will attend the summit of the eight-member group.

PM Modi will discuss important issues like trade, investment, and energy supplies as well as critical regional security threats. The prime minister is also scheduled to meet and hold bilateral talks with Russian President Putin, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and Iranian President Raisi on the sidelines of the conference.

Along with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and other central Asian leaders, PM Modi also posed for a group photo at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

This edition of the Shanghai Cooperation Summit gets more significant in nature as this is the first time Chinese President Xi Jinping flew out of China for a summit since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Before this summit, Xi Jinping has only ever had one meeting with a foreign head of state: a meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia outside the Winter Olympics in Beijing earlier this year.