Top leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran have met at an international forum to mark the 30th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s permanent neutrality. On the sidelines of the meeting on Friday (December 12), Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the meeting took an unexpected turn. A video published on RT India shows Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif finally entering a closed-door meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his scheduled meeting with Putin was delayed.
\nRT India reported that after waiting for 40 minutes in a room next to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, he lost patience. Then, an impatient Shahbaz Sharif broke diplomatic rules and entered the meeting room where Putin was holding talks with Turkish President Erdogan. However, it is not clear whether he was asked to go in or went in on his own. It is reported that he left the room about 10 minutes after entering.
\nThe moment, which was caught on camera, has sparked ridicule on social media, with social media users calling it a diplomatic blunder. However, RT India, the Indian version of Russian state media RT, has since deleted the video, citing possible “misunderstandings”. RT India said in a previous post that “we have deleted a previous post of Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif waiting to meet Vladimir Putin in Turkmenistan. The post may have misrepresented the incident.”
\nTurkmenistan became a permanently neutral country 30 years ago. The United Nations General Assembly unanimously recognized it on December 12, 1995. As a neutral country, Turkmenistan pledges not to join military alliances, not to engage in conflicts of any country except in self-defense, and not to establish bases on its soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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