The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit and Impact Upon September’s G20 Sum

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit and Impact Upon September’s G20 Summit



India’s recent hosting of the annual meeting of the SCO heads of state in a virtual format has proved to be a watershed meeting for the grouping. Just prior to the SCO summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington in what would have been interesting follow up conversations with fellow SCO attendees Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Interestingly enough, and not picked up by Western media sources, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov subsequently met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s top Statesman Wang Yi in a closed-door session at last week’s East Asia Forum in Jakarta.To get more shanghai china news, you can visit citynewsservice.cn official website.

But back to the SCO. Its full members include China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. In addition to this, in what is a rapidly expanding organisation are three Observer States interested in acceding to full membership (Afghanistan, Belarus and Mongolia) and fourteen “Dialogue Partners” (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia, Egypt, Kuwait, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Turkiye, and the United Arab Emirates).

There are various Eurasian transport connectivity issues which have arisen as a result of the SCO event, which are intertwined with other regional issues. For example, India has to work out the issues of the current chairmanship of the G20 with the next annual meeting due in early September in New Delhi. It will be the first held in India. The schedule of meetings is really tight, while India still lacks some experience in systemic global diplomatic work. It will also want a contributory summit and not to have to oversee a slanging match dominated by the United States, China and Russia trading insults and walking out of meetings.

The G20 is made up of 19 countries and the EU. The 19 countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States. All the current BRICS members are also part of the G20, making the New Delhi September summit quite a potpourri.

But other Heads of State, both attending and influential, also have busy work schedules that impact India, the SCO going forward and the upcoming G20 meetings.

Russian President Putin is forced to pay constant attention to issues concerning Ukraine and NATO, the Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is scheduled for re-elections, and Pakistani President Arif Alvi has the same while trying to guide the country through a difficult internal political situation. China’s Xi Jinping meanwhile has not yet confirmed G20 attendance, and it is possible he may not arrive in Delhi.