SCO summit: Modi may meet Jinping, but not Nawaz Sharif

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday said there is a possibilty of meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, scheduled for Thursday.

MEA spokesperson Gopal Baglay, however, said that there is no meeting scheduled between Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz



Sharif.

India and Pakistan will be formally admitted into the China dominated six-nation grouping at the SCO summit tomorrow. The admission of India and Pakistan will enlarge the group’s footprints for the first time to South Asia from Central Asia.

'Trade, connectivity, energy, banking and fight against terrorism are the main areas of cooperation,' Baglay said while elaborating about the summit.