PM Modi arrives at Uzbekistan, will meet Putin tomorrow: 10 points to remember
PM Modi will attend the two-day 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) starting Thursday.
Exchange and international relations will be on the plan when Top state leader Narendra Modi holds a two-sided gathering with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a territorial summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Friday.
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• Mr. Putin and Prime Minister Modi will attend the two-day 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) beginning Thursday.
• This is the bloc's first in-person summit in two years, allaying the COVID scare and providing a rare opportunity for all its eight heads of state to interact on the sidelines of the event. Pressing on global and regional issues of common concern.
• Russian President Putin will go to the forth coming Shanghai Collaboration Association highest point. PM Modi is also going. We have already announced that there will be several meetings with PM Modi in Samarkand," Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov told news agency ANI.
• Earlier, the official Russian news agency TASS quoted President's aide Yuri Ushakov as saying, "There will also be talks with Modi on the international agenda, the side strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific region, and of course, the United Nations, G20 and Cooperation in major multilateral formats like SCO.
• This is particularly significant, in light of the fact that in December India will seat the UN Security Board, and in 2023, India will lead the SCO and furthermore seat the G20," Mr. Ushakov told reporters on Tuesday.
• The two leaders spoke to each other in July and reviewed the implementation of decisions taken during President Putin's visit to India in December 2021. Earlier, PM Modi and Mr Putin talked on the telephone after Russia's attacked on Ukraine on 24 February.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday left for Samarkand, he twittered," Departing for Samarkand, Uzbekistan to attend the SCO Summit, which will witness an exchange of views on a wide range of local and global issues will form."
• In his pre-departure statement, Prime Minister Modi said that he was looking forward to exchanging views on topical regional and international issues, as well as expanding and deepening multi-faceted and mutually beneficial cooperation within the grouping.
• The Beijing-settled SCO is an eight-part monetary and security coalition containing China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.
• The chance of reciprocal gatherings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Putin and Pakistan Head of the state Shahbaz Sharif will be firmly watched among the pioneers going to the SCO summit face to face interestingly starting around 2019.
