Putin, Xi set to meet today in Samarkand

• The two leaders are in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting.
• Putin and Xi plan to discuss Ukraine and Taiwan at the meeting.
• The Uzbek government says Putin will meet with Pakistani, Iranian, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Uzbek leaders.

Samarkand: Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan on Thursday afternoon, according to a schedule distributed to the media by the Russian delegation.

Both leaders are in Samarkand to attend a meeting. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security group. He will also hold a trilateral meeting with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh.

In addition, the Uzbek government said that Putin is going to Samarkand and will also meet. PakistaniIranian, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Uzbek leaders.

on Friday, Putin He added in a statement that he would meet the leaders of Azerbaijan, India and Turkey.

Putin and Xi plan to discuss Ukraine and Taiwan at the meeting, which the Kremlin says will be of “special importance” given the geopolitical situation.

Xi leaves China for the first time in more than two years on a trip to Central Asia this week where he will meet with Putin, a month before he takes office as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Are ready to strengthen the place.

The deepening partnership between China and Russia is a geopolitical development the West is watching with trepidation, and the SCO broadens the audience of Beijing and Moscow to countries representing half the world’s population.