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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic for a four-day trip that aims to address broader multilateral engagements including the BRICS Summit in September and India's potential candidacy for the UN Security Council from 2028-2029. The visit also seeks to dispel concerns over reduced Indian interest in Central Asia, particularly since the last India-Central Asia summit in 2022. Modi’s agenda includes reaffirming India’s commitment to regional connectivity and addressing skepticism about decreased engagement despite earlier promises of increased trade and travel connections.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-26,
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Story summary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic for a four-day trip focused on outreach in Central Asia and participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The agenda includes discussions related to three additional multilateral platforms: the upcoming BRICS Summit in September, India's bid for the two-year UN Security Council term starting in 2028-2029, and planning for a long-delayed India-Central Asia Summit, which has not taken place since 2022. Experts suggest that this delay has sparked speculation about India losing interest in the region compared to Mr. Modi’s earlier visits, such as his tour of all five Central Asian states in 2015. The primary challenge for PM Modi during this visit is to dispel any perceptions of reduced engagement with Central Asia and reaffirm India's commitment to rebuilding connectivity in the region.
Written for “India SCO Visit Brics Unsc” on 2026-10-05,
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The agenda will include engagements aimed at three additional multilateral platforms — the upcoming BRICS Summit in September, the two-year UN Security Council term of 2028-2029, and planning for the long-pending India-Central Asia Summit, which has not met since 2022.
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Experts say the delay has led to speculation in the region that New Delhi has lost interest in the engagement, particularly compared with Mr. Modi’s first foray in 2015, when he visited all five Central Asian states.
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His biggest challenge during this visit will be to reverse that perception.
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In a speech given at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University in Nur Sultan, addressed to the “people of Central Asia”, Mr. Modi had then promised that India would rebuild connectivity to the region.
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“In an age of globalisation, Asia cannot remain fragmented.
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And Central Asia cannot remain distant and disconnected from India,” he said.
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Since 2012, when the previous Manmohan Singh government had launched the ‘Connect Central Asia’ policy, there had been considerable hope that more trade, travel, and pipelines would follow.
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However, while trade in goods has risen from $500 million in 2010 to more than $2 billion in 2025, connectivity prospects have been considerably cut due to geopolitical shifts.
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