PM Modi at SCO Summit: Leaders of India, China face for the first time since Galwan Valley clash

MEA spokesperson tweeted, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi joins the leaders of SCO Member States for discussions on topical, regional and international issues, including regional peace and security, trade and connectivity, culture and tourism".

NewsBharati    16-Sep-2022 11:33:40 AM
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Samarkand, Sept 16: The Ministry of External Affairs informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has joined the SCO summit conducted here in Uzbekistan. It is for the first time that leaders of India and China are facing each other in person since the Galwan Valley clash took place in June 2020.

PM Modi at SCO Summit: Leaders of India, China face for the first time in Samarkhand since Galwan Valley clash 
 
MEA spokesperson tweeted, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi joins the leaders of SCO Member States for discussions on topical, regional and international issues, including regional peace and security, trade and connectivity, culture and tourism".
 
 
Earlier, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Friday greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the 22nd Summit of the Council of Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States (SCO-CoHS) commenced today in Samarkand.
 
 
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and other leaders also posed for a group photograph at Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO ) Summit in Uzbekistan's Samarkand.
 
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The Prime Minister's office tweeted the pictures of Modi meeting the leaders of other SCO member states in Uzbekistan on its official twitter handle. Ahead of the SCO State of Heads summit, the security in the region is beefed up and air patrolling was underway at the congress centre in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
 
The summit commenced on Friday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Samarkand on Thursday evening to take part in the SCO Summit. During the summit, the leaders are expected to review the activities of SCO and discuss prospects for future cooperation. Uzbekistan is the current chair of SCO 2022 and India will assume the annual rotational presidency of the SCO at the end of the Samarkand Summit.
 
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the SCO summit and is likely to have some other bilateral meetings. This is the first in-person SCO Summit after the Covid pandemic hit the world. The last in-person SCO Heads of State Summit was held in Bishkek in June 2019.