SCO summit LIVE updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to have bilateral meetings with leaders of Russia, Uzbekistan and Iran on the sidelines of the SCO summit. The Prime Minister reached Samarkand in Uzbekistan on Thursday to attend the summit. The Prime Minister will have a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This will be his first in-person meeting after the COVID pandemic and the Ukraine conflict. He will also have bilateral meetings with President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. PM Modi is among 15 global leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, attending the summit in Samarkand. Uzbekistan is the current chair of SCO 2022 and India will assume the rotational annual presidency of the SCO at the end of the Samarkand Summit.