The leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia will mark 10 years since the signing of the economic bloc’s founding treaty. A meeting in the so-called extended format will feature the presidents of Cuba and Uzbekistan, the EAEU observer states.
This will be Putin’s first international engagement after he was sworn in on Tuesday for another six-year term. He will also have leaders of the EAEU and the observer states as well as presidents of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan over for an official lunch ahead of the May 9 Victory Day parade.
Putin will have one-on-one meetings with some of the visiting leaders, including Armenia’s Pashinyan, and the presidents of Cuba and Guinea-Bissau. A meeting between Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on the summit’s sidelines has not been ruled out.