Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to fly to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting with regional political, security and economic issues on the agenda.
PM Modi will attend the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The meeting to be held on 15 and 16 September 2022 will be the 22nd meeting of the council.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “The SCO summit will be attended by leaders of SCO member states, observer states, Secretary General of SCO, Executive Director of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS), President of Turkmenistan and other invited guests. “
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization began in the late 1990s as a grouping of the Russian Federation, Central Asian republics and China as a trust-building mechanism after the end of the Cold War. The organization as it stands today was established in 2001 and India joined the group in 2017.
During the upcoming summit, “the leaders are expected to review the organization’s activities over the past two decades and discuss the state and prospects of multilateral cooperation in the future. Contemporary issues of regional and global importance are also expected to be discussed in the meeting.” are supposed to.” The statement of the Ministry of External Affairs reads.
According to the Dushanbe Declaration of 2021, SCO means “the principles of mutual respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, equality and mutual benefit, peaceful settlement of potential disputes through dialogue and mutual consultation, non-interference in internal affairs, The use of non-military force or the threat of force, the rejection of unilateral military superiority in the surrounding areas.”
The SCO facilitates high-level political dialogue and also lays out a comprehensive security agenda that addresses “terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, separatism, extremism, illegal smuggling of drugs, arms, ammunition and explosives, cross-border organized crime, focuses on ensuring international information security, strengthening border security, joint efforts to combat illegal migration and human trafficking, money laundering, economic crimes and corruption”, reads the Dushanbe Declaration.
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