{"id":250802,"date":"2023-07-05T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=250802"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:43:56","slug":"23rd-sco-summit-sco-calls-for-multipolar-world-order-as-iran-joins-grouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/23rd-sco-summit-sco-calls-for-multipolar-world-order-as-iran-joins-grouping\/","title":{"rendered":"23rd SCO Summit &#8211; SCO calls for multipolar world order as Iran joins grouping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cSCO calls for multipolar world order as Iran joins grouping\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 5th July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India hosted the 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3rd Summit of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Council of Heads of State in the virtual format. This is the first time India is hosting the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the key takeaways from the <\/b><b>2<\/b><b>3rd SCO Summit<\/b><b>?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Iran as new member: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCO has decided to induct Iran as its ninth member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>New Delhi Declaration: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the major outcomes of the SCO summit was the New Delhi Declaration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The name of the declaration was coined by the Indian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The declaration proposes five joint statements namely: fight against terrorism, de-radicalisation, sustainable lifestyle to tackle climate change, production of millets and digital transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The declaration also listed a number of global challenges, including new and emerging\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conflicts, turbulence in the markets, supply chain instability, climate change and the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India on China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has once again refused to endorse China\u2019s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) scheme which envisions rebuilding the old Silk Road to connect China with Asia, Europe and beyond with large infrastructure spending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 India was the only country in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) not to support the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has also stayed out of a joint statement on <\/span><b>SCO Economic Development Strategy 2030,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> indicating a lack of consensus in the grouping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India on cross border terrorism:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Prime Minister has said that some countries use cross-border terrorism as an instrument of their policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PM said that SCO should not hesitate to criticize such nations because there can be no place for double standards on such serious matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has been repeatedly pointing out that Islamabad uses terrorist groups as instruments of state policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has been blocking the listing of Pakistan-based terrorists at the UN Security Council (UNSC).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSCO calls for multipolar world order as Iran joins grouping\u201d published in The Hindu on 5th July 2023. What is the News? India hosted the 23rd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)\u00a0Council of Heads of State in the virtual format. This is the first time India&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/23rd-sco-summit-sco-calls-for-multipolar-world-order-as-iran-joins-grouping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">23rd SCO Summit &#8211; SCO calls for multipolar world order as Iran joins grouping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-250802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}