IR · 29 Aug 2026
With reference to India's engagement with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), consider the following statements:
PM Modi visited Uzbekistan ahead of the 26th SCO Summit, building direct bilateral trade, energy and connectivity ties in Tashkent before the multilateral Bishkek leg of his trip.
SCO institutional facts - membership timelines and constituent bodies like RATS - are classic Prelims fact-anchors that recur whenever a summit puts the organisation back in the news.
India has been a full SCO member since 2017. The SCO's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) handles counter-terrorism coordination, particularly Afghanistan-linked concerns, giving India institutional weight in a bloc where China and Russia otherwise dominate the agenda.
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