Tianjin, Aug. 31 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with the acting President and military chief of Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, on Sunday.

The two leaders held discussions as they met ahead of the SCO Summit scheduled to begin later today.

The two leaders had last met this April on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok.

Myanmar's military government has announced that long-promised elections will begin on December 28, the first polls in the war-torn country in nearly five years. A 2021 coup unseated an elected civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Meanwhile, PM Modi today in Tianjin also met Chinese Communist Party top leader Cai Qi. Sharing the details of the meeting o...