On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, sources said on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister will reach Samarkand Thursday evening for the summit. Russian Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that President Putin will discuss with Prime Minister Modi the Russian-Indian cooperation within the UN and G20 during the SCO meeting.
Russian news agency TASS quoted Ushakov saying that a conversation on international agenda with Modi will also take place, and 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 important because India will preside in the UN Security Council in December, and in 2023, India will lead the SCO and also chair the G20,” he said.
On July 1, the two leaders spoke to each other and reviewed the implementation of the decisions taken during President Putin’s visit to India in December 2021.
