Ajit Karn
Today, March 29, India, the current chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), will host a meeting of National Security Advisors (NSA) and senior officials in New Delhi. In 2022, India assumed the SCO presidency for 2023.
Pakistan and China are likely to participate virtually in the SCO-NSA meeting. According to the media, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval will deliver the introductory remarks at today’s SCO-NSA meeting.
While the SCO summit is scheduled to take place in Goa this summer, India will host a number of events in the lead-up. Notably, the next significant SCO meeting will be the defense ministers’ meeting, scheduled for April 27-29 in Delhi.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 2001, with eight member states: India, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Important details about the SCO-NSA meeting
1) Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Federation’s Security Council, will attend the annual meeting of the secretaries of security councils of SCO member states on Wednesday in New Delhi, according to a statement by the Russian Security Council, as confirmed by a Russian embassy official.
2) The SCO is a significant regional powerhouse that was founded more than two decades ago to foster economic, political, and military cooperation among its member states. The eight SCO members account for approximately 42% of the world’s population and 25% of the global GDP.
3) On June 9, 2017, India became a member in good standing of the SCO. Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia are Observer States, while Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey are dialogue partners.
4) Earlier this month, Pakistan witnessed the meeting of heads of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tourism administrations in Kashi.
5) Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Culture and Sports Yerzhan Yerkinbayev, China’s Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Lu Ying Chuan, Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Minister of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy Samat Bekturovich Shatmanov and Uzbekistan’s First Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Azamov Ulugbek Axmatovich in person attended the meeting of heads of the SCO tourism administrations held in Kashi.
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6) Vladimir Evgenyevich Ilyichev, Deputy Minister of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Muminzod Kamoliddin, Chairman of Tajikistan’s Tourism Development Committee, and Aun Chaudhry, Advisor to the Pakistani Prime Minister on Tourism and Sports, participated virtually in the SCO meeting held in Kashi earlier this month.
