India attaches special importance to SCO: Bhupender Yadav

New Delhi: Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday chaired the fourth meeting of the Heads of Ministries and Department of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation- SCO Member States Responsible for Environment Protection. 

The meeting was held virtually which was attended by high-level delegation from the SCO Member States. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Bhupender Yadav said India’s SCO Presidency is guided by the mantra, “TOWARDS A "SECURE" SCO”, which was given by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Qingdao Summit in 2018. He



said India attaches special importance to SCO in promoting multilateral, political, security, economic and people-to-people interaction in the region. 

Mr. Yadav mentioned about the Mission LiFE, which was launched in October last year and invited the SCO community to be a part of it for individual, family and community-based actions. The meeting also adopted the Joint communiqué which has been framed on the basis of the SCO Action Plan to implement the 2022-24 concept of cooperation in the field of environment protection.