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WHAT'S HAPPENING ?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Uzbekistan on 15-16 September to attend the 22nd Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.

The Beijing-headquartered SCO is an eight-member economic and security bloc consisting of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.

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.

The 2020 Moscow summit was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic while the 2021 summit at Dushanbe was conducted in a "hybrid mode".

This will be India's 5th summit since it became a member in 2017.