New Delhi: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members together with India, Pakistan and China will take part in a joint anti-terrorism exercise this yr.
The determination to hold the joint exercise named “Pabbi-Antiterror-2021” was introduced by the eight-member bloc on March 18, throughout the thirty sixth assembly of the Council of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The different members of SCO embody Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The representatives of the member states additionally accepted the draft program of cooperation for 2022-2024 to counter-terrorism, separatism and extremism.
“Decisions have been made to improve cooperation between the competent authorities of the SCO member states in identifying and suppressing channels that finance terrorist activities,” an announcement from Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of Shanghai (RATS) was quoted by PTI.
RATS, headquartered in Tashkent, is a everlasting organ of the SCO which serves to promote cooperation of member states towards terrorism, separatism and extremism.
The SCO is an financial and safety bloc by which India and Pakistan have been admitted as full members in 2017.
The subsequent assembly of the Council of the RATS is scheduled to be held in September in Uzbekistan.
In November final yr, India strongly raised the difficulty of cross-border terrorism from Pakistan on the SCO meet.
