External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart and State Councilor Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Dushanbe from July 13-14. The two met in Moscow last year (September) and decided to de-escalate tensions along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, which has witnessed violent clashes for the first time since 1975. However, de-escalation is yet to be implemented. .
According to a report in Hindustan Times, their discussion agenda for this meeting is the current security situation in Afghanistan and tensions and disintegration in eastern Ladakh. Jaishankar plans to travel to Dushanbe today to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, after which he will travel to Tashkent for a regional connectivity summit that will be held from July 15-16.
Besides Yi, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will also be present in the SCO meeting. The focus of the SCO meeting will be the Taliban invasion in Afghanistan and its impact on neighboring South and Central Asia. The Hindustan Times report claimed that Jaishankar is likely to ease tensions with Yi in eastern Ladakh as well, as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is ‘dragging its feet’ over the disintegration. The report further said that the dates for the 12th round of senior military commanders’ meeting would be decided after the two foreign ministers narrow down the way forward.
According to PTI, the meeting of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers will also discuss the achievements of the organization as it celebrates the 20th anniversary of its formation this year, the Ministry of External Affairs had said in a statement earlier. The SCO was established in 2001 at a summit in Shanghai by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and is seen as a countermeasure to NATO. It is an eight-member economic and security bloc that has emerged as one of the largest inter-regional international organizations. In 2017 India and Pakistan became their permanent members.
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