View of the city of Samarkand. Archival photo. File photoANKARA, Sep 16 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand, Anadolu reported. On Friday, Erdogan is also expected to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.»President Erdogan met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Samarkand, where he arrived to participate in the 22nd summit of the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,» the agency reported on Twitter. On Thursday, the President of Russia, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Tajikistan arrived in Samarkand to participate in the summit , Turkmenistan, Turkey and Pakistan. The heads of Iran, China, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia arrived the day before. Thus, after the arrival of the President of Kazakhstan and the Prime Minister of India, 13 heads of state arrived at the meeting. 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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