(26 Jun 2025)
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Qingdao, China – 26 June 2025
1. Mid of Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh walking in to the room
2. Wide of Singh standing with officials
3. Mid of Singh shaking hands with Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin
4. Wide of defense ministers meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
5. Close of Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun
6. Mid pan of the ministers at the meeting
7. Close of Singh at the meeting
8. Mid of Singh and Dong walking
9. Mid of Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Dong, Singh, Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and others walking into the meeting room hall of 2018 SCO leaders summit
10. Various of ministers listening to the commentator and leaving
STORYLINE:
Beijing’s bid for enhanced regional leadership suffered a setback Thursday when India rejected signing a joint statement put before members of the China-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization, saying it was pro-Pakistan in not mentioning April’s terror attack on Indian tourists.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said the statement diluted India’s position on critical issues such as terrorism and regional security, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.
Singh alleged that the joint statement “suited Pakistan’s narrative” because it did not include that attack but mentioned militant activities in Balochistan, Pakistan, the person said.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of backing the Balochistan freedom movement, allegations that India denies.
Thursday’s meeting took place in the east China city of Qingdao, home to China’s northern fleet.
Singh, without explicitly naming Pakistan, urged the SCO to criticize countries that use “cross-border terrorism as an instrument of policy and provide shelter to terrorists.”
India blames Pakistan for backing the gunmen behind the April 22 killing of 26 people, most of them Indian Hindu tourists, in India-controlled Kashmir, and has described it as a terror attack. Islamabad denies the charge.
The April 22 killings embroiled the two nuclear-armed nations in the most serious military confrontation in decades.
China and India have decades-old border disputes and Beijing has become one of Pakistan’s closest allies.
AP Video by Wayne Zhang
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