Russia wants India in its club
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is insisting that he wants India to be a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as soon as possible: Russia hopes that India will soon become a full member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday after talks with his Indian counterpart Shri S.M. ...
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is insisting that he wants India to be a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as soon as possible:
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is insisting that he wants India to be a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as soon as possible:
Russia hopes that India will soon become a full member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday after talks with his Indian counterpart Shri S.M. Krishna.
"Russia supports the resolution of the issue of India’s transfer from observer status to full membership in the SCO as soon as possible. We have expounded on this position repeatedly and expect to achieve progress in the issue soon," Lavrov said.
As noted last week, the SCO summit concluded recently without any new offers of full membership.
David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist
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