India pushes Eurasian agenda with MoS Home & Deputy NSA in SCO meets in Tashkent

India on Thursday pushed to expand its Eurasian outreach with MoS Home, Deputy NSA besides one of Supreme Court judges participating at a slew of meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tashkent and Dushanbe, day after NSA Ajit Doval visited Moscow to bolster strategic ties.

While MoS Home Nityanand Rai represented India at the SCO Interior Ministers meet, Deputy NSA Vikram Misri represented India at the SCO NSA meet ahead of the summit in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) mid September.

"At SCO Interior Ministers Meet in Tashkent, MoS @nityanandraibjp called for stringent action against terrorism & drug trafficking and cooperation in cyber security. Presented India's robust covid response globally," the Indian Embassy in Uzbekistan tweeted following the meet.


The SCO NSA meet focussed on Afghanistan, Eurasian connectivity and counter-Terror measures among other issues on day one of the two-day meet, ET has learnt.

Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Ajay Rastogi participated in the XVII Meeting of Supreme Court Chief Justices of SCO Member States held in Dushanbe.

In Moscow besides holding a brainstorming session with his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev, Doval also met Deputy PM Denis Manturov. Manturov handles India as part of his portfolio. The DPM has old Indian connections having spent his childhood in Mumbai and is a big supporter of ties with India.