SCO Summit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday. The meeting comes on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Samarkand.
This summit comes as a golden opportunity to review bilateral relations and discuss ways to deepen cooperation among other issues.
With the changing geopolitics and globalisation, Asia needs to buck up and move ahead with an equal focus on climate change.
The two leaders of emerging economies are in Samarkand to attend the SCO summit. As per the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, the two leaders had ‘useful discussions’ during the meeting.
Besides reviewing bilateral relations, the two leaders also appreciated recent gains in bilateral trade.
Both countries exchanged views on regional and global developments. Earlier, Erdogan had referred to the Kashmir issue in his address at the UN General Assembly sessions. India sees Kashmir as its internal matter and Turkey’s these remarks had also bittered the relations.
India even termed his remarks as ‘completely unacceptable’. When it comes to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), it was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
To date, SCO remains one of the largest trans-regional international organisations. India became its permanent member in 2017.
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