INDIA SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SCO MEMBERSHIP
BIG SCOPE FOR COLLABORATION IN OIL RESOURCES
2015-09-11 11:03
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The next summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is scheduled at Tashkent in the middle of 2016 with India and Pakistan joining as full members of this emerging powerful regional grouping .India is now advantageously placed to pursue its programmes at both political and economic levels at the SCO forum which has got six members- China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, apart from the two new members India and Pakistan. The last summit at Ufa in Russian Federation in July this year set the stage for the entry of India and Pakistan to the SCO after a long wait as observers and 2016 summit opens up immense opportunities to India to expand its economic and trade relations with the four central Asian countries apart from Russia and China.