Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto to attend SCO meeting in India in May- The New Indian Express

By PTI

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan introduced on Thursday that Overseas Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would take part within the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) assembly in India subsequent month.

Overseas Workplace spokesperson Mumtaz Zahrah Baloch introduced it at a weekly media briefing right here.

“Bilawal Bhutto Zardari can be main the Pakistan delegation to the SCO Council of Overseas Ministers (CFM) being held on Might 4-5, 2023, in Goa, India,” she mentioned, ending weeks-long hypothesis if he would attend the convention in-person.

She mentioned the Pakistan international minister could be attending the assembly as Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had invited him to attend the SCO moot.

“Our participation within the assembly displays Pakistan’s dedication to the SCO Constitution and processes and the significance that Pakistan accords to the area in its international coverage priorities,” Baloch mentioned.

It could be the highest-level go to to India by any Pakistani chief in recent times and a attainable alternative to interrupt the ice between the 2 nations.

The ties between India and Pakistan got here beneath extreme pressure after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp in Pakistan’s Balakot in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault.

The relations additional deteriorated after India introduced the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir’s particular powers and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into Union territories in August 2019.

The SCO was based at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Over time, it has emerged as one of many largest trans-regional worldwide organisations.

India and Pakistan grew to become everlasting members of the Beijing-based SCO in 2017.

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