Why PM Modi’s SCO Summit 2022 attendance holds importance
Live MintPrime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Uzbekistan on 15-16 September to attend the 22nd Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. The first in-person SCO summit since 2019 will be watched closely for the possibility of bilateral meetings on the sidelines with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Putin, and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif among the leaders expected to attend. Significance of PM Modi attending SCO Summit PM Modi is expected to meet Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Uzbekistan this week. "A conversation on the international agenda with Modi will also take place, the sides will discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific Region, and, of course, cooperation within major multilateral formats, such as the UN, the G20 and the SCO," the official Russian news agency TASS quoted Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov as saying. The Indian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat had said earlier that PM Modi would attend the summit and hold bilateral meetings with several leaders.