From left, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Iranian Interim President Mohammad Mokhber, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Turkmen People's Council (Khalk Maslahaty) Chairman Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh and Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Media Council of the United Arab Emirates pose for a photo at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - Plus summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, July 4, 2024. /AP-PTI