Question: 17th Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in-
(a)Dushanbe, Tajikistan
(b)Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
(c)Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
(d)Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Answer :(a)
Related facts:
- On 11th to 12th October 2018; the 17th Council of Heads of Government, CHG meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- From India side this meeting was attended by the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. This was the second CHG meeting since India became a full member of SCO in June 2017.
- It is worth to note that she also attended the CHG meeting, which was held in Sochi, Russia last year.
- Mrs Swaraj’s program in Dushanbe marks participation in the SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting, both in the restricted as well as extended formats.
- The SCO CHG meeting is a forum that enables India to engage with SCO member countries and observer states of Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia.
- It is the first major meeting since Kyrgyzstan took over as chair of the organisation.
- The leaders discussed about prospects for further development of SCO and exchanged in-depth views on current international and regional issues.
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