India and Pakistan will not hold any formal meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit scheduled to begin tomorrow in China, India’s ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale said.
New Delhi and Islamabad will be participating in the two-day SCO Summit for the first time as full members of the group after securing permanent during the Astana Summit in Kazakhstan in June last year.
“Neither have we nor has Pakistan asked for a formal meeting but during such summits leaders may talk on the sidelines but there will be no formal meeting (with Pakistan)”, Indian Ambassador to China, Gautam Bambawale said.
President Mamnoon Hussain will be representing Pakistan at the SCO Summit, the Foreign Office said on Thursday. Ambassador Bambawale underscored that terror will certainly form a substantial part of discussions at the summit.
Prime Minister Modi is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the summit, where the two leaders are expected to take stock of the implementations of ideas that they had decided during their informal summit in Wuhan last month.
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