Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will chair the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers Meeting on April 28 in New Delhi. Defence Ministers of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will take part withinside the meeting. India has invited Belarus and Iran, presently observers in SCO, to take part withinside the SCO Defence Ministers` Meeting. The Defence Minister of Pakistan might be collaborating virtually. The ministers will speak topics associated with local peace and security, counter-terrorism efforts inside SCO and powerful multilateralism.

Raksha Mantri may be protecting bilateral conferences with the collaborating Defence ministers on April 27 and 28 wherein bilateral defence-associated troubles and different topics of mutual hobby may be discussed. India has historic civilisational, cultural and non secular ties with the SCO member countries. India’s club of SCO in 2017, became, therefore, a reaffirmation of New Delhi’s keenness to deepen those anciental ties. India considers SCO as an essential local institution to sell multilateral, political, security, financial and humans-to-humans interactions withinside the region.

India keeps to convey greater thoughts and tasks to bolster cooperation among SCO countries. Under its chairmanship, this year, India organised defence-associated sports to decorate interoperability among SCO member-states. The first became a workshop on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and the second one became a seminar on SCO countries’ defence think-tanks on the difficulty of Armed Forces contributing to Military Medicine, Healthcare and Pandemics. India stands devoted to taking ahead the Agenda of SCO beneathneath its chairmanship.