Rama Krfishna Sangem
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Chinese president Xi Jinping on the sidelines of two day SCO summit in Tianjin, China either on August 31 or September 1. This meeting is watched by all global leaders especially by US president Donald Trump.
Interestingly, India has invited Trump to Quad summit to be held in Delhi sometime in September. If Trump comes, his first visit to India in his 2.0 term, Modi will be holding talks with two largest economies of the world in a month.
Leaders from more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organisations will attend the Tianjin Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and related events next month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday.
The SCO Tianjin Summit will be held from August 31-September 1, Wang said during a joint press meeting with SCO Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev here, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders of the SCO member states were expected to attend the summit. Earlier in the day, the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the 10-member grouping was held here with a focus on making political preparations for the summit, official media reported.
At Tuesday’s meeting, participants exchanged views on cooperation across various SCO sectors and discussed key international and regional issues, state-run CGTN reported.
Dr Jaishankar meets SCO foreign ministers in China
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi were among those who attended the meeting, which was presided by Foreign Minister Wang.
The SCO, comprising India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Belarus, is an influential economic and security bloc that has emerged as one of the largest transregional international organisations.
Ahead of the meeting, the SCO Foreign Ministers met Chinese President Xi Jinping, who called for improving mechanisms to address security threats and challenges. With the SCO Summit set to take place this year in China’s Tianjin, Xi expressed hope to meet the leaders of other member states at the event to discuss the future development of the organisation.
He stressed that in the face of a turbulent and changing international landscape, the SCO must stay focused, remain confident, act efficiently and play a more proactive role in injecting greater stability and positive energy into the world
