PM to host virtual SCO summit tomorrow; Putin, Xi likely to attend

The summit is expected to begin at 12.30 pm and conclude around 3 pm. The summit was scheduled to take place in-person in New Delhi, but the plan was changed early June.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host the virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Tuesday, which is expected to be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, among others.

The summit is expected to begin at 12.30 pm and conclude around 3 pm. The summit was scheduled to take place in-person in New Delhi, but the plan was changed early June.

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The SCO Foreign ministers’ meeting took place in-person in Goa, which was attended by Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, China’s Qin Gang and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, among others. The last SCO summit took place in-person in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in September last year. India’s association with the SCO began in 2005 as an Observer country. India became a full Member State at the Astana Summit in 2017.

In the past six years, India has played a “very active and constructive role” in all spheres of activities of the SCO, an official said. In September 2022, India for the first time, took over the presidency of the SCO from Uzbekistan at the Samarkand Summit.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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