During a meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, India pushed for "reform and modernisation" of the forum.
As part of this, S Jaishankar appealed to SCO members to add a third language to its official languages list.
He said, "I also seek the support of member states for the long-standing demand of India to make English the 3rd official language of SCO."
This would "enable deeper engagement with English-speaking member states", Jaishankar reasoned.