(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: India at SCO Summit

Topic: India at SCO Summit

Guest:

Arvind Gupta, (Director, VIF)
Ashok Sajjanhar, (Former Ambassador)
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, (Foreign Affairs Editor, Hindustan Times)

Topic Description:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday arrived in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit. He met Chinese President Xi Jinping, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit to further strengthen bilateral relations. Amid frosty relations, no pleasantries were exchanged between PM Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. This comes as India clarified that there would be no bilateral meeting between the two leaders. PM Modi held his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ways to further strengthen the bilateral relations between the two countries. He termed the meeting as extremely fruitful. PM Modi also held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that it was "excellent". Apart from these two meetings he also met the President of Afghanistan and the heads of the other member states. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse India at the 2019 SCO summit.