Iranian President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the first time on September 13, Russian presidential foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said Friday.

Iranian President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the first time on September 13, Russian presidential foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said Friday.

Putin and Rouhani will meet during a planned summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

After Rouhani was elected president, “a proposal came from our Iranian partners for a Rouhani-Putin meeting during the SCO summit in Bishkek,” Ushakov said.

“We were quite grateful to the Iranian side for this initiative, and we naturally took it up,” he added.