"Washington and its enablers are pursuing their strategic agenda of provoking other countries into military confrontation with undesirable states, most notably Russia and China," the Russian Defence Minister said in his address to the SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting held in New Delhi.
"We should unitedly fight terrorism. If SCO has to emerge stronger, we have to fight together. Terror groups are using new methods like social media and crowdfunding," said Singh.
"We have cultural and civilizational links. For ages, we have had people-to-people connect and have exchanges in the field of commodities, and ideas--due to which we have grown in economic and cultural terms. With changing times, we will work to strengthen those linkages. SCO has evolved
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be chairing SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting on April 28th and Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif is set to attend the meeting through virtual mode.
China might pretend to be neutral, yet it is anything but, for Xi has deliberately hitched his chariot to Russia's warhorses. The dictatorial Chinese leader refuses to criticize Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine and instead accuses the USA and NATO of prolonging it.
Putin also called on Kyiv to declare a ceasefire so that a large number of Orthodox citizens living in areas of hostilities could attend church services on Orthodox Christmas Eve and Christmas Day , according to the statement.
The White House on Thursday (local time) accused a private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, of taking delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster Russian forces in Ukraine, reported The Straits Times.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia will continue developing its military potential and boosting the combat readiness of its nuclear arsenal against the backdrop of Moscow's offensive in Western-backed Ukraine.
Russia has ordered the withdrawal of troops from the crucial city of Kherson, which happens to be the only city Russia was able to capture since February's invasion
Amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow on Wednesday conveyed its concerns to India about possible provocations by Ukraine on the use of a 'dirty bomb'.