External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met Russian President Vladimir Putin along with other heads of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) delegations and used his address at the SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting to deliver a firm message on terrorism, global economic instability and the need for organisational reform.
India called for leveraging the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) collective strengths to drive shared prosperity at the SCO Trade Ministers’ Meeting held in Vladivostok.
Addressing a briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “India firmly rejects the inaccurate and misleading statements made by Mr. Navarro.”
Rattled by the solidarity shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, United States President Donald Trump on Friday said the US may have lost India and Russia to China.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s camaraderie at the SCO Summit in China grabbed attention, as Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif appeared visibly sidelined in a viral video where Modi and Putin walked past him without greeting.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), originally envisioned as a bulwark against terrorism, separatism, and extremism, faces a moment of reckoning. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, at the recent foreign ministers’ meet in Tianjin, reminded the forum of its founding purpose.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, along with fellow Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers, called on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday.
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Monday emphasized that India and China must now resolve outstanding issues related to their boundary dispute, including de-escalation in eastern Ladakh.
The failure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) defence ministers to adopt a joint statement exposes once again the brittle consensus within the bloc on fundamental issues like terrorism.
In stern words, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) should not hesitate to criticise nations indulging in cross-border terrorism and harbouring terrorists.
