New Delhi: An invitation will be sent to Pakistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting to be held in India this year. According to foreign ministry sources, keeping in mind the protocol of the SCO, a formal call will be sent from India to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to attend the meeting. Now it is for Pakistan to decide whether it will take part in it or not.

According to information received from sources, it was learned that for the first time India is hosting the SCO meeting. This was informed by SCO General Secretary Vladimir Norov on 13 January 2020. Janha Norov is on a tour of India for 4 days from 12 January 2020. He had a long discussion with Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar about this. However, it is not clear whether there were any talks about Pakistan during his meeting with Jaishankar.

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Dr. S. Jaishankar June 1, 2019

At the same time, let us tell you that Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has also given information about this by tweeting and said that he welcomed the Secretary General of SCO, Vladimir Norov and discussed the preparations for the SCO meeting in India. It is also being said that Jaishankar has told that India is fully prepared to take responsibility of the SCO meeting this year in a better way.

India has been in the role of observer in SCO since 2005: It is being said that Norov said that all the members of SCO have welcomed hosting of India. But he has said that India is a very important country in this whole region and there is every possibility of moving towards economic development here. He told that in many meetings to be held during this period, the meeting on economic matters will be very important. At the same time, India has been in the role of observer in the SCO since 2005, while India and Pakistan were given its full-time member status in the year 2017. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization began in 2001 at a conference in Shanghai in Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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