India Storms off SCO Meeting

admin September 16, 2020 Daily Current Affairs

India walked out of a virtual meeting of the SCO National Security Advisors (NSAs) after Pakistan sought to project, as Indian officials described it, a fictitious map showing Indian Territory as its own.
Strongly objected to the use of this illegal map by Pakistan.
Russia, which chaired the meeting, tried very hard to persuade Pakistan not to display the map and expressed hope this provocative act won’t affect India’s participation in SCO.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan had last month issued a new map showing the entire erstwhile state of J&K, now organised into 2 separate union territories, in Pakistan.
The map was used as the background image for the meeting by Pakistan.
SCO Charter doesn’t allow any country to raise bilateral disputes even as it provides them a platform to build mutual trust.