23rd Meeting of the Council of the Heads of Government of the SCO Member States
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Pakistan will be hosting the Twenty-third meeting of the Council of the Heads of Government (CHG) of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from 15 to 16 October 2024 in Islamabad.
In his capacity as the current Chair of the CHG, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif will preside over the upcoming CHG meeting.
SCO member States will be represented by the Prime Ministers of China, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as well as the First Vice President of Iran and External Affairs Minister of India. The Prime Minister of Mongolia (Observer State) Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan (Special Guest) will also participate in the meeting.
The Prime Minister will also hold important bilateral meetings with visiting Heads of Delegation on the sidelines of the meeting.
The CHG meeting will discuss ongoing cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, environment, and socio-cultural linkages and review the performance of the Organization. The leaders will adopt important organizational decisions to further enhance cooperation among SCO member States and approve the budget of the Organization.
Reference Link:- https://mofa.gov.pk/press-releases/23rd-meeting-of-the-council-of-the-heads-of-government-of-the-sco-member-states
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
