SCO 2025

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, (2nd L-R) Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian pose for a group photo during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on September 1, 2025. (Photo by Vladimir SMIRNOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by VLADIMIR SMIRNOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)