Rajnath Singh holds bilateral talks with his Belarusian counterpart in Dushanbe3Photo© financialexpress.com

Rajnath Singh holds bilateral talks with his Belarusian counterpart in Dushanbe

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday attended a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Dushanbe that extensively deliberated on regional security challenges as well as the situation in Afghanistan.

The defence minister reached the capital city of Tajikistan on Tuesday on a three-day visit to attend the conclave of the defence ministers of the member states of the SCO, an eight-nation influential grouping.

Ahead of the conclave Singh held bilateral talks with his Belarusian counterpart Lt Gen Viktor Khrenin and had a brief conversation with Russian Defence Minister Gen Sergey Shoygu.