CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Subrahmanyam Jaishankar attended in the meeting of SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) held in Moscow. 2020 September 10: Hon’ble Minister Prahlad Singh Patel, Ministry of Culture participated in the 17th SCO Culture Ministers Meeting in the Video-conference Format.

Detailed explanation-2: -SCO or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has a total of eight members. China, India, Tajikistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan are all members of the SCO.

Detailed explanation-3: -Turkmenistan is not a member of SCO because, in 1995, Turkmenistan formally proclaimed its “Permanent Neutrality” to the UN, which acknowledged it and passed a special resolution in response. It won’t join multilateral defense organizations, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Detailed explanation-4: -Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the China and Russia-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) India will host the SCO summit next year, and Varanasi has been selected as the SCO region’s first “Tourism and Cultural Capital”.