SCO Summits: Tianjin 2025 to Bishkek 2026
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's leaders' table is India's most delicate multilateral seat, shared with China and Russia. The 26th summit met in Bishkek on 31 August-1 September 2026 - the bloc's 25th-anniversary meeting, hosted by the Kyrgyz Republic - and closed with the Bishkek Declaration, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed alongside Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and the other leaders. The text records that double standards on terrorism cannot be accepted, backs Iran's sovereignty and asks for a political settlement in West Asia. This card also carries the 25th summit at Tianjin in 2025, where India joined the Tianjin Declaration while pressing its own counter-terror and connectivity lines. The bloc's trade ministers then met at Dushanbe on 17 September 2026, where India pressed simpler customs and steadier supply chains.
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