SCO condemn Pakistan and China cross-border terrorism: PM Modi

PM Modi at SCO 2023: At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting hosted by India on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a veiled jibe at Pakistan and China by asserting that the eight-member bloc should condemn the use of cross-border terrorism 

The 23rd Summit between the SCO member states was attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Iran, Belarus, and Mongolia have also been invited to participate as observer states. Turkmenistan has also been invited as the guest of the Chair, as is tradition for the SCO. 

India assumed the rotating chairmanship of the SCO at the Samarkand Summit in September 2022. The theme under India's chairship is SCO-SECURE. The acronym "SECURE," coined by PM Modi at the 2018 SCO Qingdao Summit, inspired India's SCO chairship theme. Its initials stand for S: Security, E: Economic development, C: Connectivity, U: Unity, R: Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, E: Environmental protection.