The reception at the sea-side Taj Exotica Resort in Benaulim was attended by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Russia’s Sergey Lavrov and Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Uzbekistan’s Bakhtiyor Saidov and SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming.
In an indirect rebuttal to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s concerns on cross-border terrorism and curbing terrorist-financing, his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called upon the SCO to collectively eradicate the menace of terrorism and
SCO Meet In Goa: EAM S Jaishankar to chair SCO foreign ministers meet 2023 in Goa. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has also arrived in India to attend the meeting. Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Arrives In Goa To Attend SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meet Bhutto will lead the Pakistan delegation. This will be the first visit by any Pakistan leader to India after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2014.
The meeting assumes significance given the military standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control it began exactly three years ago.
Pakistan s foreign ministry said that Bhutto-Zardari will lead the Pakistani delegation to the meeting of SCO foreign ministers (CFM) scheduled to be held on May 4-5 in Goa.