India, Aug. 31 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held bilateral talks with Myanmar's acting President and military chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China.

This marks the second meeting between the two leaders in recent months, following their talks in April during the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok.

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The meeting between the two leaders comes at a time as Myanmar's junta government recently 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.

Earlier today, PM Modi ...