Beginning on Oct. 22, the first day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin has scheduled several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit with visiting heads of state, TASS reports., quoting presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. On the agenda are Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. There are 36 countries attending the BRICS summit, 22 of them represented by heads of state.
Meetings set for Oct. 22 include Dilma Rousseff, president of the BRICS New Development Bank and former President of Brazil. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Xi Jinping will also meet Putin on that day. Yushakov reported that “several working meetings are due on the second day. After the narrow and extended meetings, there will be a conversation between our president and the President of the Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian and the President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Then Putin will meet with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.”
