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PM Modi to skip SCO summit; EAM Jaishankar will represent India

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will represent India at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Astana next week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to skip it. It is learnt that Mr. Modi decided to skip the SCO summit in view of his planned two-nation trip to Russia and Austria. "The Indian delegation at the SCO summit will be led by external affairs minister S. Jaishankar," Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at his weekly media briefing on Friday. In a phone conversation on Tuesday, Prime Minister Modi conveyed to Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev India's full support for the success of the summit.

The Hindu

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