India walks out of SCO Meet over Pakistan mischief |
India-Pakistan border tensions have cast a shadow over a meeting of National Security Advisers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on 15th September with India walking out after the Pakistani representative used a map showing Indian territories as part of Pakistan. The virtual meeting was chaired by Russia. India and Pakistan joined the China and Russia led the grouping as full members in 2017. Indian External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said this was in blatant disregard to the advisory by the host against it and in violation of the norms of the meeting. After consultation with the host, the Indian side left the meeting in protest at that juncture. As was to be expected, Pakistan then went on to present a misleading view of this meeting. According to sources, the Pakistani action was in "blatant violation" of the SCO charter and against all its established norms of safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of SCO member states. India issued a strong objection to the use of the illegal map by Pakistan. Russia as the host tried to persuade the Pakistani representative, Moeed W Yusuf, Special Assistant to the prime minister on national security, not to do so. Russia does not support what Pakistan has done and hopes that Pakistan`s "provocative" act will not affect India`s participation at SCO events.
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