New Delhi: For the second time this year, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will face to face with his colleague Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Dushanbe Tajikistan this week for the SCO meeting that will review the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.
Group meetings Contact SCO-Afghanistan on July 13-14, which will also be attended by the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, is expected to come with a joint statement in Afghanistan where our hasty withdrawal has made the raging Taliban rebels.
Afghanistan Afghan Minister Hanif Atmar is also expected to participate in the meeting.
India has used a group of contact groups in the past to share their perspectives in the security situation in Afghanistan, including security challenges caused by terrorism and extremism “imposed from exceeding its borders”.
Jaisankar and Qureshi together in Dushanbe in March this year for the Asian heart conference in Afghanistan.
They don’t have bilateral exchanges.
The official source said there was no more proposal by both parties for the meeting in Dushanbe.
NSA Ajit Doval and his colleague Moeed Yusuf also jointly attended the SCO NSA meeting last month in Dushanbe but once again there was no meeting between the two.
SCO Summit is also expected to be physically held this year in Tajikistan, SCO chair at this time.
On this occasion, Jaisankar and Qureshi will face each other back behind because both are expected to participate in the South Asian and Central Connectivity Meeting this weekend in Tashkent Uzbekistan.
Wang will also participate in a meeting in Tashkent.
Announcing Wang’s participation in a group meeting contact Afghanistan, China said last week, ready to work with all parties to “provide a full game for the role of the SCO-Afghan contact group, promoting SCO to contribute more in maintaining peaceful stability and reconstruction in Afghanistan”.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was ready to jointly promote the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan, and effectively maintain the security and stability of the region by increasing efforts to combat “three crimes (terrorism, separatists, and extremism)”.
S Jaisankar, Pakistani colleagues to face this week
