Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold several bilateral talks during his visit to Astana on 3-4 July for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. The Russian president will meet, in particular, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters.

"Bilateral meetings will take place on July 3 - before the opening of the SCO summit. Putin's first conversation will be with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. Then a conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is planned, after that - with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif," he noted, Vedomosti reports.