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MOSCOW: Active preparations are under way for President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming trip to China, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, calling the visit “unprecedented”.
Aside from Russian President Vladimir Putin, leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia have been invited to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, to be held in the port city of Tianjin from Aug 31 to Sept 1.
The summit will feature Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to China in more than seven years as the two neighbours work on further defusing tensions roiled by deadly border clashes in 2020, though the former last shared the same stage with Xi and Putin at last year’s BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.
Russian embassy officials in New Delhi said Moscow hopes trilateral talks with China and India will take place soon.
