Key highlights of the summit:
- The Bishkek Declaration of the SCO Heads of State Council condemned terrorism in all “forms and manifestations”.
- PM Narendra Modi asked the member states to try coordinated action against international terrorism under the SCO-Regional Anti Terrorist Structure (RATS).
- SCO declared that the Uzbekistan is expected to host a Ministerial Meeting of the Eighth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VIII) in Tashkent in the second half of 2019.
- The summit also signed a document titled ‘Roadmap for Further Action of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group’.
- A separate MoU was signed for establishment of Astana International Financial Centre.
- Apart from that the other agreements were on sports, mass media, coordination of humanitarian affairs, tourism, healthcare.
- PM Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Imran Khan exchanged greetings during the SCO summit. This informal exchange, though brief, is the first since the Pulwama terror attack, which led to a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries.
