NEW DELHI: At the SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting, which was presided over by China, external affairs minister S Jaishankar underlined the need for better connectivity in the SCO region while asserting at the same time that connectivity projects should respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of member-states and respect international law.
Jaishankar manifested India’s deep reservations about China’s BRI, a global infrastructure initiative, which has presence in PoK in the form of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), by not joining the leaders of other member-states in endorsing the same in the joint statement issued after the meeting. India has never endorsed BRI in any SCO document in the past too.
