SCO meeting: PM Modi indirectly attacks Pakistan, PM Sharif comments on ‘safe haven for terrorists’

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a veiled attack on Pakistan, saying SCO countries should condemn countries that support cross-border terrorism as a state policy and do not apply various norms in fighting terrorist acts. We do. He said that terrorism “Some countries use cross-border terrorism as an instrument of their policies and provide shelter to terrorists. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin met at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Heard Modi at the virtual summit.(SCO) said that there is a need for decisive action to tackle terrorism and terror financing.

Modi said terrorism is a threat to regional and global peace and urged the grouping to enhance cooperation to deal with the menace. “We have to fight together against terrorism, in whatever form and manifestation it may have,” Modi said, stressing that there should be no double standards in fighting terrorism.

#Watch , At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Terrorism is a threat to regional and global peace. We have to fight against terrorism… Some countries use cross-border terrorism as an instrument of their policies.” Are and give. Shelter… pic.twitter.com/qOjYt3Juo5— ANI (@ANI) 4 July 2023

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The virtual summit, chaired by India, was also attended by the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran. While chairing the summit, Modi also discussed various global challenges.

He said that the food, fuel and fertilizer crisis is a big challenge for all the countries of the world beset by disputes, tensions and pandemics and united efforts will have to be made to deal with it. On the situation in Afghanistan, Modi said India’s concerns and expectations regarding that country are similar to those of most SCO countries.

The Prime Minister said that the SCO has emerged as a major forum for peace, prosperity and development for Eurasia. India’s thousands of years old cultural and people-to-people ties with this region (Eurasia) are a living testimony to our shared heritage, he said.

He said, as the Chair of the SCO, India has made sustained efforts to take our multifaceted cooperation to new heights. Modi said India has established five pillars of cooperation within the SCO which include startups and innovation, traditional medicine, youth empowerment, digital inclusion and shared Buddhist heritage.

He said that India supports the proposal to reform and modernize the SCO. He said, I am happy that Iran is going to join the SCO family as a new member. The Prime Minister also welcomed the signing of the Letter of Commitment for Belarus’ SCO membership.

Several signature events were held under the chairmanship of India with the intention of further deepening people-to-people ties. India’s association with the SCO began in 2005 as an observer country. It became a full member country of the SCO at the Astana summit in 2017.

India has shown keen interest in deepening its security-related cooperation with the SCO and its Regional Anti-Terrorism Framework (RATS), particularly on issues related to security and defence.

The SCO was founded in 2001 at a summit in Shanghai by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan became full members of SCO in 2017