Updated On: 13 June, 2019 10:08 AM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online desk
Here's PM Modi's statement before his visit to Bishkek

Narendra Modi. Pic/AFP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bishkek on a two-day visit during which he will attend the summit of eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
I am visiting Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic) on 13-14 June 2019 to attend the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). We attach special importance to SCO in promoting multilateral, political, security, economic and people-to-people interaction in the region.