SCO summit: Modi meets Junta chief, calls for fair polls in Myanmar

PM Narendra Modi on Sunday met Myanmar’s acting president and military leader Min Aung Hlaing, also Chairman of the State Security and Peace Commission of Myanmar, and expressed hope that the forthcoming elections in the country will be held in a fair and inclusive manner involving all stakeholders. They also discussed defence cooperation and border management. In a meeting on the margins of the SCO summit, ahead of the planned elections in Dec, Modi underlined that India supports a Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned peace process, for which peaceful dialogue and consultation is the only way forward.According to an Indian readout, Modi noted that India attaches importance to its ties with Myanmar as part of its Neighborhood First, Act East and Indo-Pacific policies.