Reportedly External Affairs minister S jaishankar, who is scheduled to visit pakistan to attend a conclave of the shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October, on saturday ruled out the possibility of a bilateral meeting between the two countries, saying that his visit would not cover any official talks. jaishankar also said he would “behave well”. “The visit will be for a multilateral event. I’m not going there to discuss India-Pakistan relations. I’m going there to be a good member of the SCO. But, you know, since I’m a courteous and civil person, I will behave myself accordingly,” EAM jaishankar said.
Perhaps the External Affairs minister also slammed pakistan for the stalled progress of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). “At the moment, SAARC is not moving forward, we haven’t had a meeting of SAARC for a very simple reason there is one member of SAARC who is practising cross-border terrorism at least against one more member of SAARC, maybe more,” jaishankar said, referring to Pakistan’s cross-border terror activities against India.
Moreover “Terrorism is something which is unacceptable and despite a global view of it if one of our neighbours continues to do it there cannot be business as usual in SAARC. That’s the reason why the SAARC meeting has not happened in recent years but it doesn’t mean that the regional activities have stopped. In fact, in the last five to six years, we have seen far more regional integration in the indian subcontinent,” he said.
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