Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in India early next month, Russian officials said on Thursday. SCO member countries are Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, India, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
India is hosting a meeting of SCO foreign ministers in Goa on May 4-5. “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states in India,” a Russian official said.
“There will also be an exchange of views on current issues of the international and regional agenda,” the official said. In addition, a number of bilateral meetings await the Russian foreign minister, he added.