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SCO Summit Set To Commence In Samarkand Today

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India, from the time of its full membership, made sincere efforts to encourage peace, prosperity, and stability of the whole Eurasian region in general and SCO member countries in particular.

Samarkand: The 22nd Summit of the Council of Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States (SCO-CoHS) is set to commence on Friday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Samarkand on Thursday evening to take part in the SCO Summit. During the summit, the leaders are expected to review the activities of SCO and discuss prospects for future cooperation. Uzbekistan is the current chair of SCO 2022 and India will assume the rotational annual presidency of the SCO at the end of the Samarkand Summit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the SCO summit and is likely to have some other bilateral meetings.
This is the first in-person SCO Summit after the Covid pandemic hit the world. The last in-person SCO Heads of State Summit was held in Bishkek in June 2019.

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The SCO currently comprises eight Member States (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), four Observer States interested in acceding to full membership (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia) and six โ€œDialogue Partnersโ€ (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey).

The Shanghai Five, formed in 1996, became the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2001 with the inclusion of Uzbekistan. With India and Pakistan entering the grouping in 2017 and the decision to admit Tehran as a full member in 2021, SCO became one of the largest multilateral organisations, accounting for nearly 30 per cent of the global GDP and 40 per cent of the worldโ€™s population.
SCO has potential in various new sectors, wherein all the member-states could find converging interests. India has already pushed hard for cooperation in Startups and Innovation, Science and Technology and Traditional Medicine.

India, from the time of its full membership, made sincere efforts to encourage peace, prosperity, and stability of the whole Eurasian region in general and SCO member countries in particular.

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Ahead of attending the G20 all-party meeting in New Delhi on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Election Commission of offering โ€œVIP treatmentโ€ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a few others by allowing political rallies on election day

Kolkata (West Bengal): Ahead of attending the G20 all-party meeting in New Delhi on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Election Commission of offering โ€œVIP treatmentโ€ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a few others by allowing political rallies on election day.

โ€œPM doing rally is illegal on election day. The EC should look into this. If one is holding a political rally on the day of the results, then the result will be what you imagine.โ€ โ€œThey are VIPs different treatment for them,โ€ Banerjee told the media before boarding her flight from Kolkata.

She also said there was no separate meeting scheduled with the prime minister during her visit to the national capital and other areas.

โ€œNo one-on-one meeting arranged this time with PM,โ€ Banerjee said.
She refused to directly comment on the use of โ€œlotusโ€ symbol for Indiaโ€™s G20 presidency but noted that even if she did not raise an issue on the matter, others have and would.

โ€œThey have been using the lotus symbol earlier as wellโ€ฆI have not made an issue. Actually, it is not an issue. But instead of using a political symbol, they would have gone for a national symbol as many countries would be present. If I wonโ€™t say anything others will.โ€

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Banerjee will visit the Ajmer Sharif and Pushkar temple in Rajasthan on Tuesday.
PM Modi has called the G-20 all-party meeting later on Monday.

After India took over the presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1, 2022, heads of political parties were invited to attend the meeting convened by the central government to discuss the way forward as New Delhi plans to showcase the best of Indian tradition and culture.

As per government sources, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Trinamool Congress president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu and Biju Janata Dal president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik are amongst those who will attend the meeting at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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