Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will face off on Friday for the first time since border clashes in 2020 broke ties. Prime Minister Modi will fly to the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Thursday for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) regional security group, which will also be attended by Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The event comes after Indian and Chinese infantrymen withdrew this week from a clash site in eastern Ladakh after more than two years of fighting. Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi have not spoken since the deadlock began.
Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra told a news conference on Thursday that Prime Minister Modi would have bilateral assemblies on the sidelines of the summit, but declined to check a face-to-face with Xi. China also showed an assembly between the two leaders.
Permanent SCO are China, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
Russia has already shown a bilateral meeting between Putin and Prime Minister Modi, at which they are expected to discuss the global industry, as well as Russian fertilizer sales and mutual food supply.
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Kwatra said the broader SCO discussions will range from industry and regional security to tourism and terrorism.
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