EFSAS comments on the SCO 2019 Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
June 21, 2019
During the latest SCO Summit in Bishkek, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the audience arguing that countries which support terrorism should be held accountable and isolated, clearly hinting at Pakistan. The two countries did not hold any formal meetings. Following the Pulwama attack in February 2019, when the Pakistani-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammed killed more than 40 members of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force in the Indian administered part of Jammu & Kashmir, various security experts and government officials raised the opinion that the SCO could act as the best platform for defusing Indo-Pak tensions and facilitating peace-talks between the two nuclear-armed enemies, yet unfortunately any such scenario did not materialise.
