New Delhi, June 27 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday stated that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was right in not signing the joint document at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' meeting in China, as one country of the 10-member grouping did not want to make a reference to terrorism,. Jaishankar said the main objective of the organisation was to fight terror.

The Ministry of External Affairs had, in a statement yesterday, said that the Defence Ministers' meeting of SCO concluded without a joint statement due to a lack of consensus among member countries. "India advocated for the inclusion of terrorism concerns in the document, but one country objected. Defence Minister urged countries to unite...