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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bilateral meeting with the President of Russia, Vladimir Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds bilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan
Putin, in Samarkand on Friday (ANI/PIB) on the sidelines of of the summit, in Samarkand on Friday (ANI/Narendra Modi Twitter)

popularize millets. be chaired by India in 2023. hosting the ongoing summit.
“Another challenge the world “There is no decision yet on While Pakistan remained What is Shanghai
is undergoing is ensuring the food Pakistan’s participation in the next non-committal, China has congratu-
security of our citizens. One of the SCO summit,” said Bhutto, who is in lated India as it is set to host the SCO Cooperation
solutions is farming millet. Millets Samarkand to attend the SCO sum- summit next year. India will also host
are such a superfood which is not mit chaired by Uzbekistan. India will the G-20 summit meeting next year. Organization (SCO)?
just grown in SCO member states take over as the chair of the Shanghai It will be a big year for India to show-
but also in several other parts of the Cooperation Organization (SCO) case its growing prowess at the global he SCO currently comprises
world for thousands of years,” Modi next year from Uzbekistan, which is level. eight Member States (China,
said adding that SCO can play a big TIndia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz-
role in marking 2023 as the Interna- stan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan
tional year of millets. and Uzbekistan), four Observer
During the meeting Xi Jinping States interested in acceding to full
congratulated India for the SCO membership (Afghanistan, Belarus,
Presidency next year in 2023. “I con- Iran, and Mongolia) and six “Dia-
gratulate India for hosting the SCO logue Partners” (Armenia, Azer-
next year,” Chinese President Xi Jin- baijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka
ping said in a statement during the and Turkey).
summit. He further extended his sup- The Shanghai Five, formed in
port towards India and its presidency 1996, became the Shanghai Co-
of SCO next year. We will support In- operation Organization (SCO) in
dia for its presidency next year” the 2001 with the inclusion of Uzbeki-
Chinese president said in SCO. stan. With India and Pakistan en-
Narendra Modi also held tering the grouping in 2017 and the
a bilateral meeting with Irani- decision to admit Tehran as a full
an President Ebrahim Raisi on member in 2021, SCO became one
the sidelines of the Shanghai Co- of the largest multilateral organiza-
operation Organization (SCO) tions, accounting for nearly 30 per
summit in Samarkand on Friday. cent of the global GDP and 40 per
Earlier, PM Modi held a bilateral cent of the world’s population.
meeting with Turkish President Re- SCO has potential in various
cep Tayyip Erdogan today. Uzbeki- new sectors, wherein all the mem-
stan is the current chair of SCO 2022 ber-states could find converging
whereas India will be the next chair interests. India has already pushed
of the SCO. Uzbekistan’s President hard for cooperation in Startups
Shavkat Mirziyoyev welcomed PM and Innovation, Science and Tech-
Modi to the Congress Centre in Sa- nology and Traditional Medicine.
markand for the 22nd SCO Summit. From the time of its full mem-
But Pakistan Foreign Minister bership, India made sincere efforts
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Fri- to encourage peace, prosperity,
day that no decision had been taken and stability of the whole Eurasian
about Islamabad’s participation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the region in general and SCO member
the next Shanghai Cooperation Or- Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in Samarkand on Friday (ANI/ PIB) countries in particular.
ganization (SCO) summit that will

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