Bishkek has offered a moment of diplomatic convergence - and a reminder that declarations are easier to sign than geopolitical differences are to resolve

The 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit closed in Bishkek on September 1, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the other heads of state signing the Bishkek Declaration, marking the bloc's 25th anniversary. Hosted by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, the two-day summit brought together ten member states, fifteen partner countries and two observer nations. Prime Minister Modi's agenda rested on three pillars — security, connectivity and opportunity. On security, he pressed for dismantling the entire terror ecosystem: its financing, recruitment, radicalisation and the safe havens that sustain it, insisting there could be no double standards and that terrorism must never........

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