♤ Two other agreements, the SAARC Motor Vehicles Agreement for the Regulation of Passenger and Cargo Vehicular Traffic and the SAARC Regional Agreement on Railways could to be signed at the 18th Summit due to last minute objections to them by Pakistan.

♤ The 19th summit scheduled to be hosted by Islamabad scheduled in November 2017 was postponed after request from four nations- Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh and. This was following escalation of tension between India and Pakistan owing to the issue of cross border terrorism.