 "Narendra Modi meets Uzbekistan president Shavkat Mirziyoyev at SCO Summit, discusses ways to strengthen ties")
Qingdao: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Uzbekistan president Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the SCO Summit here and the two leaders reviewed the full range of bilateral ties, especially ways to boost economic and cultural links. [caption id=“attachment_4503497” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi heading to Qingdao for SCO summit. Twitter @MEAIndia[/caption] Modi arrived in the picturesque coastal city of China’s Shandong province on a two-day visit to attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). “Wonderful to meet Mr Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan. Ties between our nations have their roots in history,” Modi said in a tweet. “We reviewed the full range of the India-Uzbekistan friendship, especially ways to boost economic and cultural cooperation,” he said. It is for the first time that an Indian prime minister is attending the SCO summit after India along with Pakistan became a full-fledged member of the grouping, jointly dominated by China and Russia, which has been increasingly seen as a counter to NATO. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the sidelines of SCO Summit. The two leaders exchanged views on a range of topics to further strengthen our strategic partnership,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a tweet. The SCO currently has eight member countries which represents around 42 percent of the world’s population and 20 percent of the global GDP. Modi is expected to hold nearly half a dozen bilateral meetings with leaders of other SCO countries. The SCO leaders are also expected to review the situation in the Korean peninsula, Afghanistan and Syria. The SCO was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan became its members last year.
PM Narendra Modi met Uzbekistan president Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the SCO Summit. The two leaders discussed ways to boost economic and cultural links.
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