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New Delhi [India]March 14 (ANI): Defense Minister General Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday that India has been playing an important role in providing High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) in the region and beyond.
CDS said that India has demonstrated its willingness to help in all possible corners of the globe with its Operation Maitri and Operation Dost.
“India has been playing an important role in delivering HADR in the region and beyond. We had Operation Maitri, vaccine delivery during Covid and more recently Operation Dost. This proves our willingness to help to all possible corners of the globe,” General Zhao Han said.
Operation Maitri was a rescue operation by the Government of India and the Indian Armed Forces in Nepal following the Nepal earthquake in April 2015, while Operation Dost was a search and rescue operation launched by the Government of India to aid Syria and Turkey in the last month of the earthquake.
The CDS made the remarks during a virtual presentation at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Symposium on HADR, Risk Mitigation and Resilient Infrastructure in Delhi on Tuesday.
Representatives from countries such as China and Pakistan also attended the SCO seminar.
On Saturday, Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Munib Akhtar addressed the 18th meeting of chief justices of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states virtually.
From March 10 to 12, the Supreme Court of India hosted a meeting of the Chief Justice and Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
India will host the SCO Tourism Ministers’ Meeting (TMM) on March 17-18 in Kashgar (Varanasi), designated as the SCO’s first cultural capital.
India is the current chair of the SCO. The Ministry of Tourism said in a press release that during the meeting of tourism ministers, the “Joint Action Plan for Tourism Cooperation and Development of Tourism among SCO Member States” will be adopted.
The TMM will be preceded by a second Tourism Expert Working Group meeting on March 14-15. During the meeting, dignitaries will discuss and finalize the joint tourism action, which will then be adopted at the SCO tourism ministers meeting on March 17.
The joint action plan will be adopted during the SCO tourism ministers meeting in Kashgar on March 17. Notably, India has assumed the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2023. (ANI)
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