http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/15762_SCO.html
Russia and Asian states welcome USA's sworn enemy, Iran
07/06/2005 14:08
The USA will have to take account of the new international center, the
Asian monster
The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member
countries gathered for a meeting in Astana, the capital of the former Soviet
republic of Kazakhstan, yesterday. Russia, China and Central Asian states
granted the observer's status to India, Iran and Pakistan. The states agreed to
continue the economic and the antiterrorist cooperation and expressed their
opinions against the unipolar world and so-called color revolutions on the
post-Soviet territory.
The struggle with international terrorism became the central subject of
the discussion. Vladimir Putin said in his speech that new terrorist threats
had obtained the trans-border character: "They are not faceless in their
certain manifestations. There are people, who order and execute them. Our goal
is to find and neutralize those people. More importantly, we need to make SCO
states less vulnerable and more defendable against terrorist forces. It will be
possible to achieve the goal only if the tough counter-terrorist work
accompanies the activity to root out social and economic grounds of terrorism
and extremism," Putin said at the meeting in Astana Tuesday.
Islam Karimov, the President of Uzbekistan, pointed out the destructive
role of the USA in the Asian region. According to Karimov, the events, which
have recently occurred in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, unveiled only certain
vestiges of the large-scale strategic plan, which the USA was gradually
executing in the region. "The final goal of the plan is to change the political
and economic correlation of forces in the USA's favor and to take the
dominating position in the Central Asian region," the Uzbek president said.
Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization agreed to introduce
strict regulation of terms for foreign army bases to stay on the
member-countries' territories. It particularly goes about US military bases in
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
In addition to elevated statements about the anti-terrorist struggle, SCO
states - Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -
decided to launch close economic cooperation. It was decided to grant the
observer's status to Iran, India and Pakistan. The decision means that the
organization of the border cooperation (consisting of China and former Soviet
Union states - Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan), which was later
renamed in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2001, has become a large
international organization, which embraces almost 50 percent of the Earth's
population - about three billion people.
The monstrous organization, which occupies the territory from the Arctic
to the Indian Ocean and from Kaliningrad to Shanghai, may become the second
political pole of the world. One may say that member-counties of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization have a great wish to counteract the USA's supremacy:
Iran, the habitue of the "axis of evil," has become the official observer of
the organization. Russia, China and India are trying to play their own game,
without the participation of Washington, whereas Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan are concerned about the color revolutions that are included in the
plans of the US administration. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization did not
set any limits for its expansion: the organization currently intends to grant
the status of an observer to Afghanistan, where the USA has been conducting the
counter-terrorist operation for four years already. To crown it all, there are
no obstacles to welcome another member in the SCO - South Korea.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization may continue its eastwards and
southwards expansion. Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and
Indonesia may join the organization in the future. If these plans come true,
the SCO will unite most densely populated Asian states and Russia. The USA will
therefore have to take account of the new international center.
It is noteworthy that the creation of the "Asian monster" has to face
quite a number of serious obstacles. The USA has its army bases in Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Taiwan, South Korea and in South-East Asia
states. In addition, one has to take into consideration the contradictions of
the two new nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. The two states permanently
interrupt their diplomatic relations; armed clashes continue on their borders
too. Both India and Pakistan consider each other as their prime enemy.
Contradictions between India and China are rather serious too. Moscow has
been trying to establish a triangle of cooperation with Delhi and Beijing, but
both Indian and Chinese officials do not welcome Russian suggestions. They are
thoroughly engulfed in their inner competition in Asia on the whole, in
Indochina, first and foremost. China has been supporting Pakistan in all of its
conflicts with India for years already. Each of the feuding states tries to
become a separate center of force. In order to subdue rivals, they gladly use
the assistance of Washington.
One thus may infer that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has
brilliant perspectives. However, the organization will be viable only when its
members get rid of obvious conflicts.
Vadim Trukhachev
Read the original in Russian:
http://www.pravda.ru/world/2005/5/15/40/20257_SCO.html (Translated by: Dmitry
Sudakov)
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