reports last week<\/a> said that CIA Director John Ratcliffe had visited the Russian capital for talks.<\/p>\n\u2018Path of agreement\u2019<\/p>\n
Putin is also expected to hold separate talks with Pezeshkian.<\/p>\n
Russia and Iran are among the most sanctioned states in the world and have deepened military and economic ties since Moscow invaded Ukraine. Iran has supplied drones for Russia\u2019s ongoing invasion.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has warned Moscow and Beijing against arming Iran. US media speculated that as well as Ukraine, Ratcliffe sought to convey a warning to Russian counterparts that Moscow should refrain from supplying weapons to Tehran.<\/p>\n
Speaking in Bishkek after the first exchange of fire between the United States and Iran in a month, Iran\u2019s Pezeshkian said continuing the war was not in Tehran\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to strive for a path of agreement and understanding, and we believe that continuing the war is neither in our interest, nor in the interest of the region,\u201d he told India\u2019s Modi.<\/p>\n
Putin, Xi, Pezeshkian, Modi and Sharif are due to take part in a plenary session chaired by Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov.<\/p>\n
On top of the 10 members of SCO, the alliance now has 15 \u201cdialogue partners\u201d, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. It also has two observer countries: Afghanistan and Mongolia.<\/p>\n
While the bloc claims to represent some 40 percent of the world\u2019s population and 25 percent of global GDP, it remains diverse, with disagreements among members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Russian and Chinese leaders met in Kyrgyzstan on the sidelines of the SCO summit, being attended by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4635,3191,39,704,268,30,4483,42,8518,427,82,11168,79,7292,6,33,36],"class_list":["post-35555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-iran","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-politics","tag-qatar","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}