{"id":313330,"date":"2019-06-14T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313330"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:12:17","slug":"sco-summit-pm-modi-says-countries-supporting-terror-must-be-held-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sco-summit-pm-modi-says-countries-supporting-terror-must-be-held-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"SCO Summit: PM Modi says countries supporting terror must be held accountable"},"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=\" wp-image-313331 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-696x483.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit-605x420.jpg 605w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-sco-summit.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a stern message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the countries sponsoring, aiding and funding terrorism must be held accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s capital Bishkek PM Modi highlighted the spirit and ideals of the SCO to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted, \u201cPM @narendramodi speaking at the #SCOSummit2019 highlighted the spirit and ideals of SCO to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Countries will have to come out of their narrow purview to unite against terrorism to fight it, PM Narendra Modi said in the presence of his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDuring my visit to Sri Lanka, I visited the St\u00a0Anthony&#8217;s shrine, where I witnessed the ugly face of terrorism that claims the lives of innocents,\u201d Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The prime minister also called on the SCO member states to cooperate under the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) against terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi arrived in the Kyrgyz capital on Thursday for the two-day SCO summit. This is Modi\u2019s first multilateral summit after he assumed office for the second term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stern message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the countries sponsoring, aiding and funding terrorism must be held accountable. Addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s capital Bishkek PM Modi highlighted the spirit and ideals of the SCO to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Ministry of External Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11489,3931,316,5546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313330"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313332,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313330\/revisions\/313332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}