This year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit will be Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first overseas visit following the COVID-19 outbreak two years ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the high-level talks
MEA says PM is ‘likely to hold a few bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summit’ but didn’t confirm which leaders he will meet separately
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan, marking India’s assumption of the rotational presidency and potential high-level bilateral engagements.
Move comes ahead of SCO summit in Uzbekistan which PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to attend
Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed India’s ties with his country, saying it is developing in the “spirit of a privileged strategic partnership”.
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With India taking over the Presidency of SCO in September, PM Modi is expected to meet all SCO leaders, but all eyes are fixed on his possible meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and a possible movement to reduce border friction between two Asian giants. A courtesy meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is also on cards.
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This meeting came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he had called the Dalai Lama to wish him on his birthday. Modi’s public articulation of his call to the Dalai Lama – for the second year in a row — comes amid the slide in India-China ties over the military standoff.
