President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Tajikistan on Tuesday to meet the country's leader Emomali Rahmon, Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
"President Putin is scheduled to pay a working visit to Tajikistan tomorrow. There will be his meeting and talks with Rahmon," he said, responding to a question from TASS.
Speaking about the format of the talks, the Kremlin spokesman specified that the leader would "talk one-on-one".
The Russian President will stop in Dushanbe on his way to another post-Soviet country, Turkmenistan. There the Head of the state will attend the Caspian Summit. The event will be held in Ashgabat on 29 June.
This will be Putin's first trip this year to a face-to-face multilateral summit and his second overseas visit overall. In February this year, he visited China, where the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held.
The Russian President was in Turkmenistan for the last time in 2019, when he attended a meeting of the Council of CIS Leaders. The same year he also visited Tajikistan for the last time. Putin was also due to travel to Dushanbe last September, when the capital hosted summits of two international organizations - the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. However, shortly before the trip, he had to switch to self-isolation due to contacts with coronavirus-infected people in his entourage.
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Based on materials from TASS