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India’s National Security Advisor(NSA) has attended a meeting of NSAs from Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) member countries in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan.
Important Facts mentioned in the meeting
Financial Action Task Force (FATF):
- The Financial Action Task Force (FATF). is an inter-governmental body established in 1989 during the G7 Summit in Paris.
- Its Secretariat is located at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) headquarters in Paris.
International North-South Transport Corridor(INSTC):
- INSTC was first proposed in 2000 to improve connectivity between Russia, Central Asian states, and India.
- Route: It is a 7,200-km-long multi-modal connectivity project to establish transport networks (ship, rail, and road route). It will be used for moving freight between India, Russia, Iran, Europe, and Central Asia. It will cut costs and time in moving cargo.
- Members: It includes 13 countries namely India, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Oman, Syria, and Ukraine.
Ashgabat Agreement
- Ashgabat agreement is a multimodal transport agreement between the governments of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, India, Pakistan, and Oman.
- Aim: It aims to create an international transport and transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO):
- SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation. It was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
- Members: The members of the SCO are China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
- India and Pakistan were admitted to the SCO as permanent members in 2017.
- The Secretariat of SCO is based in Beijing, China.
Source: Indian Express
