He was due to fly on Thursday morning, but his schedule changed to Wednesday afternoon.

The 2-day meetings will start on July 9 and President Rouhani as the ' Special Guest' will deliver speech at BRICS summit and on the second day, he will also deliver speech at the SCO summit meeting.

Bilateral meetings and talks with a number of heads of member-states of BRICS and SCO are on his agenda.

BRICS comprises countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

In addition to the two Summit, Eurasia Summit is also to be held in Russia, too.

City of Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan Republic of Russia is hosting all three summits on Thursday and Friday July 9 and 10