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Home Minister Rajnath Singh to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh left for the Kyrgyz Republic on Wednesday to attend the ninth meeting of Heads of Government Authorities of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States to be held from August 24-25, 2017, dealing with the prevention and elimination of emergency situations.
The Indian delegation includes senior officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Ministry of External Affairs.
India got full membership of SCO this year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the SCO’s annual summit meeting held in Astana, Kazakhstan in June, 2017.
The participation of India as SCO Member will open additional opportunities for giving new impetus to the development of international cooperation in the field of protecting the population and territories from emergency situations within the framework of the SCO and will bring it qualitatively new positions in regional and global formats, the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
This meeting of Heads of Government Authorities of SCO Member States is scheduled to consider and approve the draft Action Plan for 2018-2019 for the implementation of the agreement between the governments of the SCO Member States on cooperation in providing assistance in the elimination of emergency situations.
During the visit, the Home Minister is likely to hold bilateral meetings with the ministers of some of the SCO Member States.
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