Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, July 3 will hold bilateral meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of the Heads of State.

Putin has already arrived in Kazakhstan, Interfox reports.

The main program of the SCO summit will take place on Thursday. Members of the SCO Council of the Heads of State will exchange views on current global and regional affairs, and official documents will be signed after the meeting.

Putin will speak to the Russian press after the summit.