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Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrives in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for the 2022 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. Over the next two days leaders including Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping will gather for a summit touted as a challenge to Western global influence. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan for a two-day visit to attend the 16th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation. IMAGES
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and China's President Xi Jinping meet at a SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summit in Uzbekistan, as Xi Jinping makes his first overseas visit since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The SCO -- made up of China, India, Pakistan, Russia and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- was set up in 2001 as a political, economic and security organisation to rival Western institutions. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin touches down in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand, where he will join China's Xi Jinping and other Asian leaders for a regional summit touted as a challenge to Western global influence. IMAGES
Protesters chant "go away!" outside the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT) as President Alexander Lukashenko arrives and departs in a helicopter for a meeting at the factory. IMAGES