India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif smile in New Delhi May 27, 2014. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/Files
UFA, Russia (Reuters) - India and Pakistan began accession to a regional security group led by China and Russia on Friday after two days of summits which President Vladimir Putin held up as evidence Moscow is not isolated in the world.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, meeting in the Russian city of Ufa a day after the BRICS emerging economies held a summit there, said the invitation to the two Asian nations showed a "multi-polar" world was now emerging.
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