EAM Jaishankar To Participate In SCO Meet In Uzbekistan
Date
7/27/2022 3:07:38 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
External affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Uzbekistan
during July 28-29 to participate in a meeting of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) council of foreign ministers.
The meet will discuss preparations for the upcoming meeting of
the SCO council of heads of state in Samarkand during September
15-16, the external affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.
The foreign ministers will review ongoing cooperation for
expansion of the SCO organisation and exchange ideas on regional
and global developments of common concern, the ministry said.
Jaishankar, who is visiting at the invitation of Uzbekistan's
acting foreign minister Vladimir Norov, is likely to meet his
Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the margins of the SCO meet. If the
meeting goes ahead, this will be the second time this month that
Jaishankar and Wang will hold talks on the sidelines of a
multilateral event.
However, there is little optimism in New Delhi for any
breakthrough or forward movement on the two-year-old military
standoff on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), given the positions
adopted by both sides.
Jaishankar and Wang had held talks on the margins of a G20
foreign ministers' meeting in Indonesia on July 7. There has been
no official announcement from either side about a meeting in
Tashkent, though people familiar with the matter said a bilateral
meeting between the two ministers isn't being ruled out.
Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari too will attend
the SCO meeting. There was no word on a possible meeting between
the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh is expected to attend a meeting
of SCO defence ministers in Uzbekistan next month, setting up the
possibility of a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wei
Fenghe.
At his last meeting with Wang on July 7, Jaishankar called for
an“early resolution” of all outstanding issues along the LAC and
reiterated the need to complete troop disengagement at all friction
points to restore peace and tranquillity in the border areas. So
far, the two sides have withdrawn frontline troops from two
friction points – Pangong Lake and Gogra.
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