SCO Summit 2022 kicks off in Samarkand

The second day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit kicked off Friday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Russian President Vladimir Putin in attendance, among others. The SCO is holding its first in-person summit in Samarkand in Uzbekistan after two years.

The summit is set to deliberate on regional security challenges, boosting trade and energy supplies among other issues. 

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev chairs the meeting.

Media sources also announced that Ebrahim Raeisi, the President of Iran, arrived at the venue of the meeting.

Launched in Shanghai in June 2001, the SCO has eight full members, including its six founding members, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan joined as full members in 2017.