ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday met with world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the sidelines of a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) Council of Heads of State (CHS), Sharif’s office said.
Sharif, who arrived on a six-day visit to China this week, was welcomed by President Xi Jinping at a banquet organized for leaders participating in the 25th SCO Council of Heads of States meeting in Tianjin.
The prime minister also held informal meetings with Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmenistan’s Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
“Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was seen receiving extraordinary warmth from world leaders,” Sharif’s office said. “The closeness observed in these meetings reflects the brotherly and friendly relations between Pakistan and these countries.”
The SCO comprises China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus, with 16 more countries affiliated as observers or “dialogue partners.”
