New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- India has reaffirmed its commitment to a rules-based multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core, while urging closer economic cooperation among Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members to build resilient and diversified supply chains, the commerce ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

The SCO is a Eurasian political and economic bloc with 10 member states, including Russia, China, Pakistan and India.

At the SCO Trade Ministers' Meeting in Russia's Vladivostok on 6 September, additional secretary Amitabh Kumar, representing commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal, underlined the need for an "open, fair, inclusive and non-discriminatory multinational trading system wi...