Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet face to face at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Uzbekistan on 15 and 16 September.This will be a visit to China’s first foreign country since the beginning of Pandemi Covid-19 two years ago.

Confirming Xi’s visit to neighboring Central Asia, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said he would travel to Uzbekistan from 14 to 16 September to participate in the 222 meeting of the SCO Head of State Council in Uzbek City of Samarkand.

In addition to Modi and XI, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi are also expected to mark their presence at the Summit.What can be anticipated at SCO Summit 2022? What is the importance of he holds?

Founded in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, Shanghai’s cooperation organization is an inter -government organization consisting of eight member countries – China, India, Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The organization also recognizes ‘dialogue partners’ – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

SCO focuses on several problems such as regional security, his struggle against regional terrorism, ethnic separatism, religious extremism and regional development, said the Department of Politics and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA).

SCO, eight members of the economic and security blocks dominated by China and Russia, contributed around 60 percent of the Eurasian region, 40 percent of the global population, and more than 30 percent of the world’s GDP, noted NDTV.

At the invitation of Uzbekistan President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Samarkand, Uzbekistan on 15-16 September 2022 to attend the 22nd meeting of the Board of State of the State Head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), “MEA said in a statement, according to Ani.

The meeting between Modi and President of Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev is certain, Indian Express reports.Although there are no officials, Sumber told Indian Express that the Indian Prime Minister might hold a bilateral meeting with Putin and Raisi.

Modi and XI will meet directly after their meeting in Brasília on the sidelines of BRICS 2019 (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Summit.