Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Uzbekistan next week, Tass reported, during the Chinese leader’s first trip abroad in more than 2 years.
Xi will sit down with Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit that runs from Sept. 15-16 in Samarkand, Russia’s ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said Wednesday, according to the state-run news agency.
"We are planning a serious, full-fledged meeting of our leaders with a detailed agenda, which we are now, in fact, working on with our Chinese partners,” Denisov told reporters, according to the report.
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