Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met his Chinese counterpart Wan Yi on the sidelines of Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Jaishankar told Yi that progress in the disengagement process in eastern Ladakh was essential for restoration of peace and tranquillity and that it is the basis for the development of overall ties.
It is understood that developments in Afghanistan figured in the talks between the two foreign ministers.
Afghanistan and expansion of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) will be key focus at the grouping's heads-of-state-summit that will take place on Friday (September 17). The summit, being hosted by Tajikistan, will take place in its capital Dushanbe in a hybrid mode. The summit will see a meeting on Afghanistan in which SCO member countries will be present along with those part of Collective Security Treaty organisation (CSTO). The CSTO is an alliance of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
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