SCO offers ‘mediation’ in India-Pak. talks

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  • The eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) offered to smoothen a bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan.
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  • It offered it so that the two countries can resolve their differences, following last month’s terror attack in Kashmir.
  • SCO Secretary-General:
    (1) At his first press conference after taking over as the SCO Secretary-General, Vladimir Norov offered “mediation,” to support direct talks between both countries.
    (2) He said the SCO member-states were ready “to offer mediation as there is an intention [by India and Pakistan] to resolve the differences in a bilateral format”.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 22nd Mar 2019
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