Pakistan on Wednesday marked a key diplomatic milestone because it hosted the highly-anticipated Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit with world leaders converging on the Jinnah Conference Centre in Islamabad with PM Shehbaz Sharif in chair.
The SCO moot — the highest-profile occasion hosted by the nation in years — is being held on the Jinnah Conference Centre in Islamabad, with leaders from 10 international locations in attendance.
The leaders from the SCO member states attending the summit embody China’s Premier of the State Council Li Qiang, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Tajik Prime Minister Kohir Rasulzoda, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Kyrgyzstan’s Chairman of Ministers’ Cupboard Zhaparov Akylbek, and Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref.
Indian International Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s participation on the occasion was a significant spotlight, marking the primary such go to by an Indian FM in nearly a decade amid frosty relations between the 2 nuclear powers.
In the meantime, observer state Mongolia is represented by Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai and Turkmenistan by Deputy Chairman of the Cupboard of Ministers Rashid Meredov because the particular visitor.
Fashioned in 2001, the Eurasian safety and political group claims to symbolize 40% of the world’s inhabitants and about 30% of its GDP, however its members have numerous political techniques and even open disagreements with each other.
PM Shehbaz Sharif speaks on the SCO summit in Islamabad on October 16, 2024. — PID
