Putin, Xi set to meet on Thursday in Samarkand | Inquirer News

Putin, Xi set to meet on Thursday in Samarkand

/ 01:37 PM September 15, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping

 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China February 4, 2022. Sputnik/Aleksey Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan early on Thursday afternoon, a schedule distributed by the Russian delegation to media showed.

The two leaders are in Samarkand to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional security group. They will also hold a three-way meeting with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh.

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Separately, the Uzbek government said Putin was traveling to Samarkand and would also meet Iranian, Kyrgyz, Pakistani, Turkmen and Uzbek leaders.

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On Friday, Putin is set to meet the leaders of Azerbaijan, India and Turkey, it added in a statement.

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