Among those invited and confirmed to attend are Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i? and Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Other invitees, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, have yet to confirm their attendance.

Additional leaders invited include Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.

Invitations were also extended to leaders of Vietnam, Mongolia and Laos.

Notably absent from the list was Iran despite its growing alliance with Moscow amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.