By Interfax's morning accounting, the amendments would write 2 new bodies into the SCO's charter: a universal centre for countering security challenges and an anti-drug centre.
The delegation arithmetic never settled. Counts ran from 17 leaders in Russian wire copy to about 21 presidents and prime ministers in Bishkek's own press the day before, and no final list had surfaced by midday.
Monday belonged to the bilaterals. Putin proposed making the Russia-China visa-free regime permanent and saw Modi and Tokayev in sequence, while Rahmon sat with Pezeshkian. Khurelsukh's meeting with Xi, reported by Montsame this morning, produced a fuel pledge carried elsewhere in this edition.
Today's schedule gives Putin a run of rooms: Pezeshkian, Erdogan on the Black Sea and Ukraine, Pashinyan on what Moscow bills as Armenia's European plans, Rahmon and Khurelsukh, then the host.
The delegation arithmetic never settled.
The cameras did some diplomacy of their own on Monday night. Putin and Aliyev were photographed talking on the stadium benches at the Nomad Games opening, with no official talks announced by either side; Baku's August protest over the images at its Moscow compound stands unanswered in the public record.
What the summit adopted goes to the evening edition. The absence of texts by midday is a publication lag, and we treat it as a lag rather than a decision.