The prime minister, who addressed the summit through video conference, said that "terrorism is a threat to regional and global peace, we will have to fight against terrorism."
Modi called for a united fight by SCO against the menace in the presence of his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in the summit.
Xi Jinping will attend the summit via video conference in Beijing at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The SCO Foreign Ministers' Meeting will be held on May 4 and 5 in Goa.
This was the first face-to-face meeting between Modi and Putin after Russia had attacked Ukraine in February this year.
This is the first in-person SCO Summit after the Covid pandemic hit the world. The last in-person SCO Heads of State Summit was held in Bishkek in June 2019.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking forward to exchanging views on topical, regional and international issues at the 22nd Summit of the Council of Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States (SCO-CoHS) to be held in Samarkand.
The SCO summit is scheduled for September 15-16 where leaders of the organisation will sit together to discuss regional challenges, Daily Jang reported.
As per the reports, the proposal also includes moving back tanks and artillery to the depth areas on either side to reduce chances of any incident in a region where tensions are already high, and troops are battling the harsh Ladakh winter.
