ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Prime of India, Narendra Modi will meet in Russia today (Friday).
Both PMs will meet in the Russian city of Ufa. Both are there to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.
Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah taking to media on Thursday said that tomorrow’s meeting between the two prime ministers is expected to have a positive impact on bilateral relations and regional and international levels.
This was the first official confirmation of the meeting that was long speculated in the media. Pakistani confirmation of the meeting coincided with a similar statement from Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
“It is confirmed. PM Narendra Modi and PM Nawaz Sharif will have a bilateral meeting in Ufa tomorrow at 9.15am (Russian time) on sidelines of SCO Summit,” India’s MEA spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted on Thursday.
This would be the first bilateral meeting between the two prime ministers since they met in May 2014 in Delhi after PM Modi’s inauguration. The two leaders had also met in November during the Saarc Summit in Kathmandu, but that was not a formal bilateral interaction.
