New Delhi: Pakistan on Thursday skipped the two-day SCO military medicine conference organised by India here.
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The conference is being attended by 27 international and 40 Indian delegates.
Delhi: Pakistani delegation is absent at the first military co-operation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), organised by the Defence Ministry. Defence officials say, since Pakistan is a member of the SCO, it was invited to the event. pic.twitter.com/36FL2LWt2M
— ANI (@ANI) September 12, 2019
At the conference, the inaugural session of which was addressed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the seat allotted to Pakistan was vacant.
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This is the first military cooperation event hosted by India after becoming a full-time member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
India and Pakistan became members of SCO in June 2017. (PTI)
