INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar is likely to participate in both Quad and Russia and China-led SCO meetings on the margins of the
78th UNGA session later this month, during what will be his first visit abroad after the G20 summit.Jaishankar was scheduled to travel to
Cuba later this week for the G7 + China group summit but that plan was dropped after the announcement of the special session of Parliament
He will now travel straight to New York after the Parliament session and address the UNGA high-level meeting on September 26.On the margins,
According to diplomatic sources, efforts are on also to schedule a meeting of the BRICS foreign ministers.This will be the third time that
the Quad foreign ministers will meet on the sidelines of the UNGA
SCO ministerial meetings have also been held in the past at the same venue
policy in line with its belief in a multipolar world.While the Quad meeting will look to prepare the groundwork and finalise the date for
the summit which India will host next year, the SCO meeting will be an opportunity for India to reinforce its commitment to working with the
Eurasian bloc to deal with issues like terrorism and the need for peace and stability in Afghanistan
after having changed the original date, the government also stayed away from the SCO 2030 economic strategy because it seemed aligned more
country to not explicitly condemn Russia for the Ukraine war
This strategy has served the government well in these turbulent times in international relations and, according to Indian authorities, was
