As Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in India for SCO Foreign Ministers' meeting, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Islamabad is committed to playing its part to advance the shared values of peace and stability in the SCO region.
"I am happy to arrive in Goa for participating in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. I am leading the Pakistan delegation at SCO and hope that the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) will be successful," Zardari said in a video shared by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke
"There will be a total of 15 key decisions on table for SCO CFM Meet. These decisions will shape SCO Leaders' Summit in July in New Delhi," sources told ANI.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a bilateral with the Secretary General of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Zhang Ming as the two-day long meeting of Foreign Ministers' of SCO member states began in Goa on Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reached Goa to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting, where he is scheduled to hold a bilateral with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar later today.
India's foreign minister Dr S Jaishankar will hold bilateral talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tomorrow.
"Tomorrow's bilateral meetings of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with SCO Secretary General, foreign ministers of Russia, China and Uzbekistan," an MEA official told ANI.
Notably, Bhutto-Zardari's visit comes after the Poonch attack. On April 20, an Army vehicle passing Bhimber Gali and Poonch in the Rajouri sector was fired upon by unidentified terrorists, through grenades, which lead to the death of five soldiers.
A day before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers' meeting, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived at Dabolim international airport in Goa on Wednesday.
During an inspection tour in the China-Myanmar border area in Yunnan on Tuesday, Qin Gang emphasised the necessity to sincerely carry out the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress's policies and uphold stability at the border region.