During their interaction, Jaishankar shared a light moment when he was heard asking whether Lavrov had an opportunity to get some rest and a suntan, to which the Russian minister responded that he had had about an hour and a half to do so.
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.
"Pakistan's long and blemished history of sponsoring almost all the terrorist groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir is now an open secret. In the late eighties, it again unleashed a policy of death and destruction by exporting terrorism into the Kashmir Valley through its various terrorist p
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.
According to local residents, members of JeM were reportedly seeking funds for carrying out jihad in Kashmir and Palestine in Bagh-e-Naran, a suburb on the outskirts of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in April this year.
As 'Operation Kaveri' continues to bring stranded Indians back to the country from conflict-hit Sudan, another flight carrying 231 passengers landed in Mumbai on Wednesday.