New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday affirmed that his upcoming visit to Pakistan regarding SCO Summit, noting that he is not going to Islamabad to discuss ‘India-Pakistan relations’. He added that his visit is all about multilateral event, which is the SCO Summit 2024, and New Delhi is being a “good member of the SCO”.
“Yes, I am scheduled to go to Pakistan in the middle of this month and that is for the meeting of the SCO –the heads of government meeting,” Jaishankar stated this during the Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance, hosted by the IC Centre for Governance in New Delhi.
“I expect that there would be a lot of media interest because the very nature of the relationship is such and I think we will deal with it. But I do want to say it will be there for a multilateral event, I mean I am not going there to discuss India-Pakistan relations. I am going there to be a good member of the SCO. Since I am a courteous and civil person, I will behave myself accordingly,” he highlighted.
The External Affairs Minister further added that the SCO Summit is being held in Islamabad this time, as Pakistan, like India, is a recent addition to the bloc.
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