Go to the media bankMOSCOW, Sep 13 Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold meetings on the sidelines of the SCO summit with the heads of Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan, said Yury Ushakov, Assistant to the Head of State for International Affairs. Jr., President of Iran (Ibrahim) Raisi, Prime Minister of Pakistan (Shahbaz) Sharif, President of China Xi Jinping,” he told reporters. “We will hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Azerbaijan, Ilham Heydarovich Aliyev,» he added. The SCO is an international organization founded in 2001. India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan participate in it. Observer countries — Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia, partner countries — Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Turkey and Sri Lanka. At the SCO summit in Dushanbe in September 2021, the procedure for admitting Iran to the organization and granting the status of a dialogue partner to Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia was launched. This year, Belarus officially applied to join the SCO as a full member.
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