CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -19 May 2022: Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Culture, Government of India participated in the 19th Culture Ministers meeting of SCO Member States in Tashkent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Varanasi will become the “Cultural and Tourism Capital” of the SCO for 2022-23 under the eight-member organization’s new initiative to promote people-to-people contact and tourism among member states.

Detailed explanation-3: -India has taken over as Chairperson of the SCO for 2023, and will host leaders of all SCO countries at a summit in Delhi expected in mid-2023. Earlier, the SCO summit 2022 was held recently in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -India received the SCO rotating presidency yesterday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. India will hold the presidency of the grouping for a year until September 2023.

Detailed explanation-5: -At the end of the 21st Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), held in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, the leaders of the eight main members of the organisation agreed to change the membership of the Islamic Republic of Iran from an observer member to a full member and signed the relevant documents.