- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
Even though their relation remains battered particularly over the question of terrorism, Russia expects India and Pakistan will be part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Convention on Combating Extremism, the country’s TASS news agency reported, citing Moscow’s security council secretary Nikolay Patrushev.
While the previously unreleased parts of the official’s address to a meeting of the security council secretaries from the SCO member nations, which took place in Tashkent in Uzbekistan on Friday (19), were published in Russia’s Argumenty i Fakty newspaper on Tuesday (22), the council confirmed to TASS the authenticity of the quotations.
According to Patrushev, Russia is keen to begin counter-terrorism cooperation with other members of the SCO.
“We welcome the successful implementation of the 2022-2024 cooperation program related to the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism, as well as the 2017 SCO Convention on Combating Extremism. We hope that India and Pakistan will join the document,” he was quoted as saying by TASS.
India and Pakistan were admitted to the SCO in 2017.
The 2022 annual summit of the SCO is set to be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 15 and 16.
