Expect a Fruitful Outcome from SCO Meet: PM Modi

India will be formally inducted into the SCO summit at its two-day meet in Tashkent.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Uzbekistan to attend the SCO Summit from New Delhi on 23 June 2016. (Photo: IANS)

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed to Tashkent, to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet, saying that India expects a fruitful outcome from the SCO, especially in the field of economic cooperation.
  
  
• “India attaches great importance to ties with Central Asia and always seeks to expand economic and people-to-people ties with the region,” said a statement issued by the PM prior to his departure, adding that he would be meeting and interacting with leaders of the SCO Nations.
  
  
• India and Pakistan will be formally inducted into the China-led SCO summit at its two-day meet in Tashkent.
  

(With inputs from IANS.)