PM Modi will preside over the virtual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization today. Leaders of other countries including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif are expected to participate in this conference. SCO summit will last about 3 hours, conference afternoon .44 can start at. ,SCO summit was to be held in person in Delhi Let us tell you that earlier the SCO summit was going to be held in person in New Delhi. But this plan was changed. At the same time, in the month of May, a meeting of Foreign Ministers of SCO was organized in Goa, in which Foreign Ministers of other member countries including Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari Bhutto participated. The last SCO summit was held in person in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September last year.

2005 India was associated with SCO in India’s association with SCO as an observer country originated in. India 2005 became a full member country at the Astana Summit. An official said that in the last six years, India has played a “very active and constructive role” in all spheres of SCO activities. In September 2023 India took over the presidency of SCO from Uzbekistan for the first time at the Samarkand Summit. Apart from China, Russia and Pakistan, India has also invited other SCO member countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for the SCO summit.

Iran, Belarus and Mongolia were invited as observers Along with this Iran, Belarus and Mongolia have been admitted to the SCO Council 12th meeting has been invited as observer countries. As per the SCO tradition, Turkmenistan has also been invited as the guest of the chairman. The heads of two SCO bodies – the Secretariat and the SCO RATS – will also be present at the summit. In addition, heads of 6 international and regional organizations – the United Nations, ASEAN, CIS, CSTO, EAEU and CICA have also been invited to the summit.

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Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 7: 44 AM IST