On the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, India and the four nations of the Visegrad Group — Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic — convened for the first time as a collective diplomatic unit, inaugurating a framework that neither side had formally attempted before. The meeting, held September 21, 2026 in New York, produced not ceremony but commitment: annual ministerial meetings, a shared business forum, and deepened cooperation in defence, technology, and human mobility. In an era of shifting alliances and regional realignments, India's choice to engage Central Euro