Uzbekistan makes formal announcement of leaders attending SCO summit

All the eight leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, (SCO) including the Indian Prime Minister will be attending the summit this week in person in Uzbekistan’s historical city of Samarkand.

The press secretary of Uzbekistan’s President, Sherzod Asadov, said in a Facebook post that this will be the first in-person meeting of the SCO leaders since 2019 and will conclude the doubly landlocked central Asian country’s chairmanship of the organization.

The leaders who have been invited as guests at the summit are Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedow.

The summit will take place on Thursday and Friday.