Union Minister of Power Sushilkumar Shinde represented India at the meeting of the Heads of Governments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in St. Petersburg on 7 November 2011.
The meeting hosted by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin considered providing full membership to India and Pakistan as well as granting observer status to Afghanistan and making Turkey a dialogue partner.
The meeting was attended by Heads of Governments of the member-States of the SCO, namely, Russia, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan. While India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia are observer States, Afghanistan is a Special Invitee at the forum.
The SCO & India
The SCO was founded in 2001 at Shanghai. SCO has six full members and aims at strengthening mutual trust and good-neighbourliness and friendship among member states.
India joined this regional organisation as an observer in 2005. Within the existing participatory mechanisms open to the observer countries, India has demonstrated its strong commitment to the SCO by engaging actively in several areas related to development and security.
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