{"id":304082,"date":"2018-10-12T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304082"},"modified":"2018-10-12T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:46:43","slug":"eam-swaraj-attends-sco-says-terrorism-remains-most-pertinent-threat-to-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/eam-swaraj-attends-sco-says-terrorism-remains-most-pertinent-threat-to-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"EAM Swaraj attends SCO, says Terrorism remains most pertinent threat to development goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304083 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-696x530.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-1068x813.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01-552x420.jpg 552w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-191529__01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Indian External affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj on October 12 attended the SCO Heads of Government council meeting in Tajikistan&#8217;s Dushanbe, in the presence of a number of leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The leaders present at the meeting discussed prospects for the further development of SCO and exchanged in-depth views on current international and regional issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was also present at the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing the gathering, EAM Swaraj said that terrorism remains the most pertinent threat to goals of development and prosperity. &#8220;As the footprint of terrorism expands, governments must assume their national responsibility and cooperate with each other. India has actively supported the SCO Qingdao Summit Leaders&#8217; Appeal to Youth against the radicalisation of youth.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">EAM welcomed the signing of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group protocol, she added, &#8220;India stands committed to a peace process which is Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled, that can help Afghanistan emerge as peaceful, secure, stable, inclusive and economically vibrant nation. In this context, we welcome the signing of the Protocol of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group on the sidelines of the Qingdao Summit. We would be happy to co-host with Afghanistan, the next meeting of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group, in India.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian External affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj on October 12 attended the SCO Heads of Government council meeting in Tajikistan&#8217;s Dushanbe, in the presence of a number of leaders. The leaders present at the meeting discussed prospects for the further development of SCO and exchanged in-depth views on current international and regional issues. Pakistan foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":304083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5546,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304084,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304082\/revisions\/304084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}