Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto will visit India on May 4 to attend the SCO meeting

Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto will visit India on May 4 to attend the SCO meeting; Jaishankar did not speak in Tashkent last year

On May 4, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the foreign minister of Pakistan, will fly into New Delhi for a trip to India. He will take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting of foreign ministers, which will take place in Goa on May 4-5. This has been verified by Pakistan’s foreign ministry. After 2014, a Pakistani minister will visit India for the first time this time. Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani prime minister, travelled to India in 2014.

When asked about Bilawal Bhutto’s visit, Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, responded, “It would not be right to focus on any one member.”

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In Tashkent, S Jaishankar and Bilawal Bhutto met face to face.

The foreign ministers of Pakistan and India met in person on July 29, 2022. Then, in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, there was a meeting of the SCO’s foreign ministers. There was also a time when the foreign ministers of India, S. Jaishankar, and Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto, sat next to each other. Despite this, the two did not even engage in conversation.

The foreign ministers of the two nations were seated one foot apart.

All eight SCO members were represented at the July 2022 meeting by their respective foreign ministers. On the fringes of the summit, Jaishankar met with the foreign ministers of seven different nations, but Bilawal was ignored.

Bilawal and Jaishankar sat apart when the Uzbek President hosted a dinner for all the foreign ministers. With the exception of the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Jaishankar spoke to everyone. The two were no more than five feet apart even during the group photo. All of the foreign ministers shook hands in this instance, but Jaishankar and Zardari took a stand apart.

Learn more about the SCO now, including when India joined.

In 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, or SCO, was established. SCO is a group that focuses on politics, business, and security. There are eight permanent members in all, including Pakistan, China, India, and Russia. The SCO was founded with six members: Uzbekistan, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

India and Pakistan joined the SCO in 2017, bringing the total number of permanent members to 8. Six nations—Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey—are dialogue partners with the SCO. Its observer members are four nations: Afghanistan, Iran, Belarus, and Mongolia.