NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — India and Pakistan are expected to sign preliminary membership memorandum at the SCO summit in Tashkent on June 23-24 and will become full-fledged members at the 2017 SCO summit in Kazakhstan.
"India is glad to be a member of the SCO & looks forward to fruitful outcomes particularly in the field of economic cooperation through SCO," Modi said via his official Twitter account.
India is glad to be a member of the SCO & looks forward to fruitful outcomes particularly in the field of economic cooperation through SCO.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 22 июня 2016 г.
Cooperation with Central Asia is of great importance for India, he added.
The SCO is a political, economic and military alliance that includes Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
