Sushma Swaraj to Visit Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday For SCO Meet

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for a two-day meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday where she will represent India at the two-day meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)here.

Highlights

India will be attending as a full member of the SCO
Sushma had attended the last CFM in Beijing in 2018.
CFM meeting will review the preparations for the forthcoming SCO Summit

In a statement released here on Monday, the External Affairs Ministry said this will be the second CFM meeting that India will be attending as a full member of the SCO.

Sushma Swaraj had attended the last CFM meeting in Beijing in April 2018.

“India actively took part in various SCO dialogue mechanisms under the Chairmanship of the Kyrgyz Republic over the past year. The next SCO Summit will be held in Bishkek in June,” the statement said.

Sushma Swaraj will also issue a joint call of SCO Foreign Ministers on Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.

The CFM meeting will review the preparations for the forthcoming SCO Summit in Bishkek on June 13-14 and also exchange views on topical issues of international and regional importance.