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EAM Jaishankar To Attend SCO Summit In Pakistan, Clarifies ‘Not There To Discuss India-Pakistan Relations’

EAM Jaishankar also discussed the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) during the media interaction.

EAM S. Jaishankar on upcoming SCO Summit in Pakistan
EAM S. Jaishankar on upcoming SCO Summit in Pakistan

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Islamabad, Pakistan on October 15-16. On his upcoming visit to Pakistan, EAM Jaishankar said that the event would be multilateral.

In this context, he clarified, “I’m not going there to discuss India-Pakistan relations. I’m going there to be a good member of the SCO. But, you know, since I’m a courteous and civil person, I will behave myself accordingly.” He said this during a media interaction at the Sardar Patel lecture on Governance organised by IC Centre for Governance in New Delhi on Saturday, October 5.

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EAM Jaishankar also discussed the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), stating, “At the moment SAARC is not moving forward, we haven’t had a meeting of SAARC for a very simple reason – there is one member of SAARC who is practicing cross-border terrorism at least against one more member of SAARC, maybe more… “

He further remarked that there hasn’t been a SAARC meeting for years because of continued issues with terrorism. It doesn’t mean that the regional activities have stopped, he added.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organization established on June 15, 2001 in Shanghai (PRC) by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan. Its predecessor was the mechanism of the Shanghai Five.

Also Read: EAM S Jaishankar To Attend SCO Summit In Pakistan, What Makes This Visit Important?

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