No country can choose its neighbours. What India can do is have an honest conversation with Pakistan. The foreign ministers’ exchange at the SCO meet was a failure of diplomacy
The propensity of India and Pakistan to hijack a multilateral meeting, with the drama surrounding their bilateral relationship, has acquired a stupendous status in recent times.
What was once the scourge of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summits, Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meets and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) sessions — creating a distraction from substantive issues — now has blighted the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings as well. Unfortunately, the absurdity was on full display at the meeting of foreign ministers of SCO countries in Goa.
What was once the scourge of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summits, Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meets and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) sessions — creating a distraction from substantive issues — now has blighted the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings as well. Unfortunately, the absurdity was on full display at the meeting of foreign ministers of SCO countries in Goa.