Mongolian President Kh.Battulga will visit Kyrgyzstan on 12 June to attend a high-level meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Heads of state and government from 11 countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Iran, India and Belarus will participate in the meeting which was brought forward to 13-14 June for reasons unknown. Originally, it had been scheduled for 14-15 June.

This year, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Kyrgyzstan, is chairing the SCO meeting. As a security measure, all demonstrations on and in the vicinity of Bishkek’s Gorky Square have been banned from 1-20 June.