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Chinese leader Xi Jinping will leave the country for the first time in two years to travel to Central Asia, where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, REUTERS writes.

On Wednesday, September 14, Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Kazakhstan. After that, he will meet with Putin at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand in Uzbekistan.

The SCO summit, which will be attended by 15 states, is scheduled for September 15-16.

“The meeting will give Xi Jinping an opportunity to highlight his influence, while Putin can demonstrate Russia's focus on Asia; both leaders can demonstrate their opposition to the United States,” the agency writes.

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Earlier, on September 8, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov announced that on the sidelines of the upcoming SCO summit, Putin plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders.

According to the Kremlin spokesman, this meeting "will be of a very important nature for obvious reasons." In general, on the sidelines of the summit, Putin will have "a whole series of bilateral meetings," Ushakov added.

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The SCO includes India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia act as observers, while the partners of the organization are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Turkey and Sri Lanka.

At the last summit in September 2021 in Dushanbe, participants signed a package of several dozen documents. One of the key points was the decision to start the procedure for admitting Iran to the organization and granting partner status to Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. In July 2022, Belarus applied to join the SCO.

“A kind of line is being formed of those wishing to join the full members of the SCO or join as observers and dialogue partners,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted on the eve of the summit in Uzbekistan.