Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in Uzbekistan his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), announced public television CCTV without further details.
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Xi Jinping previously saw his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin there, the first meeting between the two men since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A close ally of Russia, Belarus is an observer member of the SCO, built as a counterweight to Western influence and which brings together China, Russia, four Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan), India and Pakistan.
