In an interview with ThePrint, Dilshod Akhatov, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to India, said Tashkent will ensure not just expansion of SCO but also realising its ‘full potential’.
This meet is a precursor to the SCO Summit scheduled for next month, which is likely to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
External affairs minister is in Uzbekistan for Shanghai Cooperation Organisation foreign ministers’ meeting and is expected to meet Muttaqi on sidelines of main event.
Discussions will be held under SCO’s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of which India is currently the chair. Meanwhile, Pakistan and the US are back to discussing Afghanistan.
India is contemplating whether it will send a team from here or have officials from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad participate in the exercise.
Speaking at the SCO conclave in Dushanbe, the defence minister said India is committed to working within the SCO framework for helping create & maintain a secure & peaceful region.
During the visit, the external affairs minister will also attend the meeting of the SCO contact group on Afghanistan, which will also see the participation of the Afghanistan government.
Doval and Yusuf will be attending the 16th meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Council in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This will be an in-person meet from June 23-24.
In an address at the virtual meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu called for combating the menace under a collective approach.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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