Shanghai Cooperation Organization News

Bilawal Bhutto has come to India for the SCO Summit in Goa. Bilawal Bhutto said that he is very happy to reach Goa. There has been no bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan for the last 7 years.

Bilawal Bhutto has come to India for the SCO Summit in Goa. Bilawal Bhutto said that he is very happy to reach Goa. There has been no bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan for the last 7 years.

In the run-up to the SCO summit under India's presidency, India will be holding meetings for SCO defense, National Security Advisor (NSA), interior, and environment ministers.

This is going to be the first SCO Summit in which both Indian PM and Chinese President will be together since the Galwan incident Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit is being organised in Uzbekistan’s cultural capital Samarkand The Russian President has confirmed that he will be meeting China's Xi in Uzbekistan

India and Uzbekistan have historical relations going back many centuries even more than 2000 years ago, said the Indian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Both nations had foreign ministerial dialogue instituted in Samarkand, the first one happened in January 2019, India-Central Asia Dialogue Then the India-Central Asia Summit, which happened this year in January, shows how close India and Central Asian countries are taking steps together, he added

The SCO grouping is one of the largest groupings, covering around 40% of the global population and 30% of global GDP The grouping is dominated by Russia and China and includes four central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Pakistani NSA Moeed Yusuf will participate in SCO meet next week. The in-person meeting along with the NSAs of other countries is slated for June 23 and 24 in Dushanbe (Tajikistan).

In a major blow to China, India has refused to extend support to Beijing's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative. At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), India was the only country in the 8 member grouping which refused to support the project.

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meet, India has strongly raised the issue of cross border terrorism from Pakistan. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said, "Terrorism is truly the enemy of humanity. It is a scourge we need to collectively combat."

India will host SCO meet on December 2 SCO meet will see the participation of 7 PMs - 6 from the member states of SCO itself Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and one from observer member of Belarus. Pakistan PM Imran Khan will skip the event

Uzbek envoy to India Farhod Arziev said New Delhi has an important role to play in the international grouping that covers three-fifths of the Eurasian continent and nearly half of the human population.

The exercise will involve tactical level operations in an international counter-insurgency or counter-terrorism environment under SCO Charter. 

The drill which will involve all SCO members is a counter-terrorism exercise. So, apart from India and Pakistan, the exercise will also feature Russia and China. 

The two leaders meet in Astana in Kazakhstan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed on structural reforms to revive global growth and urged the G20 nations to adopt an action oriented agenda of collective, coordinated and targeted action.

Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain said on Thursday that his country firmly supported China`s position on the South China Sea as well as Taiwan and Tibet.