Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday met Mohammad Mokhber, the interim president of Iran, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
Moscow and Tehran have been negotiating a comprehensive bilateral cooperation agreement reflecting the “unprecedented upswing” in the bilateral ties, according to Russia’s foreign ministry.
Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping were set to participate Thursday in a regional summit in Central Asia bringing together numerous countries opposed to the West.
Putin and Xi regularly meet under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) alliance, whose latest session is being held in Kazakhstan’s capital city of Astana.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also attending since his country is a “dialogue partner” with the bloc, whose full members include ex-Soviet Central Asian states, India, China, Russia, and Iran.
On Wednesday, Putin had bilateral meetings with Erdogan and Xi ahead of the main session, telling the Chinese leader that the Shanghai alliance was strengthening its role as “one of the key pillars of a fair multipolar world order.”
Both countries have railed against what they call US-led “hegemony” on the world stage.
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