Chinese President Xi Jinping is also among the leaders who will attend the summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand on Friday.
He is expected to meet Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, an official press release said. He will also hold bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, according to The Hindu.
In a statement ahead of his departure on Thursday evening, Modi said that he looked forward to “exchanging views on topical, regional and international issues, the expansion of Shangai Cooperation Organisation and on further deepening of multifaceted and mutually beneficial cooperation within the Organization”.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is also among the leaders who will attend the summit. Xi and Modi will come face-to-face for the first time since tensions began along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh in April 2020.
