India and Central Asian Republics Relations
India and Central Asian Republics Relations
Colonel B S Nagial (Retd)
In Nov 2020 two Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) summits were held, and India participated in both of them. The SCO Heads of State summit held in Russia on 10 Nov 2020 was attended virtually by Prime Minister Narender Modi, and SCO Heads of Government held in India on 30 November 2020 was participated in by Foreign Minister S. Jayahankar. Since this took place in India for the first, therefore evoked great response from strategic analysts and the business community.
SCO is a permanent international intergovernmental organisation with headquarters in Beijing in China. It is a Eurasian political, economic and security organisation whose aim is to maintain peace, security and stability in the region. This group was created on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Also known as the ‘Alliance of the Ea