Explained: Why India skipped SCO’s Eurasian Economic Forum in China | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Why India skipped SCO’s Eurasian Economic Forum in China | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Om Marathe |Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: September 11, 2019 8:17:09 pm

Explained: Why India skipped SCO’s Eurasian Economic Forum in China

The SCO, an intergovernmental body for security and economic cooperation in the Eurasian region, was formed in 2001 by the ‘Shanghai Five’ (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan), in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.

Since the BRI’s launch in 2017, India has remained firm on not singing it off at the SCO’s annual summits in 2018 and 2019.

India on Tuesday skipped a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which was organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at Xi’an in China. India has been a member of the SCO since 2017.