SCO meet 2018: Swaraj, Sitharaman to hold delegation level talks in  Beijing  today
SCO meet 2018: Swaraj, Sitharaman to hold delegation level talks in Beijing today
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New Delhi [India], Apr. 24 (NT): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be present at a preparatory meeting on Tuesday related to the forthcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as ANI reported.

Swaraj will take part in foreign ministers' meeting while Sitharaman will attend the SCO defence ministers' meeting,

 Worth mention here in the annual summit of the SCO India and Pakistan became full members, last year, will take place in the Chinese city of Qingdao in June.

Swaraj, who landed in China on April 21, is already in Beijing on a four-day visit to finalize the agenda for the summit of the eight-member political, economic and security bloc.

Meanwhile, Sitharaman reached in China late evening on April 23.Both leaders are expected to hold delegation level talks on trade and terrorism in the respective meetings.

Earlier the Ministry of External Affairs had confirmed that there would be no bilateral talks between Sushma Swaraj, Nirmala Sitharaman, and their Pakistani counterparts on the sidelines of the SCO.

The SCO comprises of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and Pakistan, having aimed at military cooperation between the member states. It was headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2001.

 

 

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