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On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) virtual summit, which is scheduled to include Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, among others.
The summit is scheduled to begin at 12.30 p.m. and end around 3 p.m. The meeting was supposed to be held in person in New Delhi, but that was changed in early June.
The SCO Foreign Ministers met in person in Goa, with Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, China’s Qin Gang, and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov among those in attendance. The most recent SCO summit was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in September of last year. India first joined the SCO as an observer country in 2005. In 2017, India was admitted as a full member during the Astana Summit.
According to an official, India has played a “very active and constructive role” in all aspects of the SCO’s activity over the last six years. At the Samarkand Summit in September 2022, India took over the SCO presidency from Uzbekistan for the first time.
Source:IE
