<h1>Member states approve regional development bank, streamline partner status, unveil security and cooperation centres, pledge $1.6B</h1> Member states approved establishing a regional Development Bank after a decade of deliberations, without specifying a timetable, to boost efficiency and social development. The summit also admitted a new partner state and merged observer and dialogue partner categories into a single 'partner' status to streamline the organisation. Leaders unveiled four security centres and agreed on enhanced cooperation in energy, green industry, digital economy and AI, including three bilateral cooperation centres. A major contributor pledged roughly USD 1.6 billion in grants and loans and new scholarship and training initiatives; two states agreed to establish diplomatic relations.