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well again the welcome to parking lots of palm pilots time now they're not very flame i guess. but. the shanghai cooperation organization is holding a joint anti-terrorist threats to the preparations. one thing that refused to take part in the news. the other do say it's all right but analysts suppose it may be a sign. see i was going through which in turn makes the member states search for different operations. it's been over a decade since the body with found it but it's still unclear whether it's a military and economic or whatever part so what's the organization is go and how this is going to develop in the future we're asking the russian president's special

envoy for the c.e.o. . after almost all of russia's east european neighbors joining nato the country turned to asia and search for allies as a result of the shanghai cooperation organization or was founded in two thousand and one the new international body united china has a stop to kurdistan and russia. was initially given a cold shoulder by the west things changed after obama became us president that was when nato started seeking the assistance. normalizing the situation in afghanistan all of the c.e.o. countries based terrorism and drug trafficking threats from afghanistan and therefore rightfully interested in the region still is a sham a relatively young ten year old organization b s c o is still in search of its role searing security and economic collapse despite its cooperation with nato many still

see it as a counterbalance to the north atlantic alliance. with the basque welcome to the show thank you very much for for being with us thank you . first of all i was asking the question that we started with a actually the question right why we wanted you here in the show so is a clear vision at least the moscow. the vision of the of the sea this is primarily a military. and economic organization as the chinese would definitely want it to be. first of all. i would like to stress. the. need a military block nor. integration or economic i'm going to say. the as c.e.o. is a food fledged regional organization. which has. a

wide spectrum of. tasks and. all of those aims and purposes of the organizations that are in shrine in the charter of this seal which was signed in two thousand to one year after the establishment of the a c o. . the s. seal was set up as an organisation to react to the challenges recent changes to the shanghai five remembering exactly all started in one thousand nine hundred six when. russia. kyrgyzstan the dickens style on the one solution china on the other side so i signed an important agreement on confidence building measures in the border area

and later idea came to the minds of the leaders of the countries why shouldn't those countries who are very much in common. in terms of foreign policy interests. security interests economic interests why shouldn't they continue working together he added thirty today they the organization is stepping into its second decade and enter russia that russia is getting ready to take to take over the leadership in the organization what we. are for example can you may one may go that. has three chief and second they came down well. peace on earth. i don't think yes. i would buy that. maybe first and foremost in the region where the remember states are

located and. this is also one of the goals which you will find in the is sealed charter to promote good neighborly and friendly relationship between the countries of the region and so far this go in has been achieved quite successfully by the liberals are the problem the whole one of the problem seems to be that the sounds the regular summits that are being held by the organization such as we see now here here and this is a screen that the corporation within they are seeing seems to be more bilateral and multilateral with more emphasis on bilateral agreements and cooperation rather than multilateral wouldn't it is so relevant i would say it's all you want a great deal of course biological relations. is a very important aspect of the relationship within the region and.

as a matter of fact all the countries which are members of the c.e.o. asked to digital partners to each other by literally and this is also a very important factor of the cooperation with the india c.e.o. . but multilaterally i would say for the last ten years. the organization has set up. a. very strong pyramid of mechanisms of cooperation a lot of agreements. conventions treaties have been signed and what is the most important practical mechanisms again kickstarting and cooperation has begun. and you mentioned the goals of the is still i would simply see three pillars of the organizations one is and this is the top

priority of the c.e.o. is maintenance of regional peace and security. combating terrorism extremism and separatism. so security is the most important pillar. it is and it will continue to be so in the forseeable future the second is economic cooperation which is not less important and now as the shanghai cooperation organization is entering its second bigot it is becoming more and more important and cultural corp is the third pillar i would add to this foreign policy coordination and also the promotion of co-operation between the a c.e.o. and other multilateral entity and starting from the un and ending up with regional organizations are going to talk about it but you know one of the laws of existence of any any organization like the c.e.o.

is expansion and well it has to expand in order to survive which finally usually kills not who comes to big guys up there this is life that is a c.e.o. considering expansion of course when you do it eastward or southward which way this is the issue on the agenda since we have several formal applications on the table one is from pakistan another one is from iran the member countries who are of the status of observers to be a seal but when well i did didn't pakistan's status changed after the parliamentary committee on national security officially officially stressed the necessity of full fledged membership to look at the me as observers to observe the . they filed official applications to become full members of the good musicians and excuse me. i would like to finish the list india has clearly

indicated that it will be in a position to put forward an official application as soon as there's consensus on his candidature with m.v.s. c.e.o. so while we are having those occasions on the table of course the issue of expansion is here expansion is there as your several exam is a regular thing for. every multilateral entity because. all the multilateral organizations are trying to attract partners to become stronger and so on a sofa wouldn't be unprecedented if you have both pakistan and india within one of their station because they they they are at war with each are you sure well you have to go to kashmir yeah i saw why or why they should be in each and every day the issue is being considered by the member states the decision hasn't been taken yet and one of the reasons why is that the shanghai cooperation organization has to

prepare itself for expansion the sample of other multilateral institutions like the european union. just to name a few shows that it is a huge amount of work the multilateral in one multilateral organizations is supposed to do before expansion so what the a single member countries vora get done is that two thousand and nine they adopted. the regulations on admission of new members and in the year two thousand and ten. the approved list. sample number and a moment the standing between an applicant state and the c.e.o. top see in the status of the overfull member now we're doing our whole work in

terms of. working out the financial and legal. administrative conditions this is a very serious thing because the organizational was set up for six countries and all the mechanisms are cute to work for six countries now that we're going to take a decision on expansion and i'm sure that sooner or later this isn't will be taken . so the whole mechanism should be should be reconfigured so this kid healed part of his russian president's special envoy to the s.c.l. spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us don't go we'll can feel the sense of you can left and looked.

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are real limits. on our team. welcome back to spotlight and al green aren't just a reminder that my guest on the show today is killed by a ski russian president's special envoy to the shall i hop ration organization can you we talked about about expanding the the organization that he as c.e.o. but new countries applying membership well usually charts about joining their c.e.o. start always when certain country. is spoiling it throughly shoes with the united states so does it mean that the cereal is considered by many at least in the region as a counterweight to the u.s.

led west. well i think this is a. very typical view of a. western citizen knowing little about the sea org and considering it. as as an m d u.s. antenatal project for enticing a counterweight which is which does mean anti-war. and this perception is. completely wrong and as a matter of fact this perception has been changing for the last ten years and indeed at the beginning. the as seal was perceived by many in the west as something. plotting against the interests of the west and of the united states in the region but as a seal starting to stand with itself as

a. powerful regional organization and. by the way in the un general assembly resolution it is clearly mentioned that the as you is a key regional organization to consider security in the region in all its aspects i think i think that this quotation speaks for itself speaking about security is afghanistan's a session to the c.e.o. still on the agenda are you talking about here considering that within a day or so this question is related to what you asked. a couple of minutes ago so the western countries and the united states studying started to reassess any role of this c.e.o. and its potential and the possibility of cooperation. will be a seal strengthen itself and demonstrated its potential to be

a useful. regional platform for cooperation and we welcomed this new assessment in my way we have already had contacts with the americans. on the issue of afghanistan in the year two thousand and nine. in moscow we convened a special conference on afghanistan where thirty six delegation is going to notice that the this is very good that you know my degree of confidence because this was nearly three years ago when in moscow and it was attended by the us the european union you're always see the g eight nato but since then. the c.e.o. has been pretty passive in their address in the afghan issue is it right or or or is there a wrong impression i get. at the conference of the two thousand i successfully was

a good one says we adopted two documents one was the declaration on which was supported by all who were the sponsor of the conference and another was a plan of action which was. liberated by the c.o. member states and afghanistan and since then we've been working together to. accomplish the tasks visaged in this plan of action well afghanistan is a very special case for the a c. or it is a neighboring country and the seal member states wish it to restore peace and security to develop itself and to become an independent neutral self-sufficient. prosperous country and the as

your member states by like really i. doing a lot to a system going to stand as the organization the c.e.o. is come bearing terrorism and drug trafficking and other new challenges which is. has grown in proportions to the level of threat to regional and national peace and stability let's not there's also a contribution to the. resolution of the complex issues which we have gone people of easing up let's talk about the latest news and start speculating and this is back to stand the marsh well the upcoming see a little track societies on anti-terrorism and to take a stand. it has dropped out of there is not taking part in the maneuvers does it mean as some speculate that that is back in style may leave the organization you know there was well what was the reason for his back is there not taper and because

i think it's it's within me the main framework is anti terrorist groups and why don't they participate well. and multilateral organization consists of member states and all member states have their own interests and not always the concrete interests of the members these coincide and. they have a right to participate in this or that cooperation by the way this is. one visit in article sixteen of the charter and if one member state is not interested in taking part in corporation. you can refrain from but his speech but it may join cooperation at a later stage. whose biggest stan did not sign an agreement.

on military cooperation. of two thousand and eight. the representatives of the ministry of defense of was based on take part in the regular meetings of the defense ministers and they also participate in. the regular exercises military exercises as observers and the solicitations chartered doesn't require all the countries to sign an agreement with them. to make it legal never and you can continue to be a full fledged member of the seal without joining one of the major fields of cooperation of course of course you see is the law considered to be for his members that yes yes well this gives a lot of a lot of opportunities for going ization does grohl if i mean a truck in france wasn't considered a full face member of nato when he did join the mil train is

a schlep old navy is nato and its c.e.o. take economic cooperation i think. we are. witnessing the rapid growth of economic cooperation v.s.e. of and not all the member states may be interested in. executive in concrete projects in the sphere of energy say or transportation or agriculture but we have agreed within the a c. o. that it would not hamper the promotion of economic cooperation and i think this is an advantage and not a disadvantage of course we will hope that all the member states. but it's been actively in. the a c. or cooperation especially in the area of counter-terrorism. drug

trafficking and all security related issues but maybe the conditions are not ripe yet for it was because the people to speak out about this is yet to come you mentioned you mentioned culture culture is one of the pillars of them as they should well i want to quote one of the papers saying recently that china russia and is back to stand submitted a draft code of insertion of code of conduct for information security before the sixty's this united nations general assembly there is that need that the c.e.o. countries in general and the organization the shanghai organization in general advocates the introduction of a sort of a censorship to the internet worldwide and this is one of the goals that you are setting for yourself you know we are not speaking about censorship although as your member countries are in favor of the promotion of freedom of speech living in

hearing the internet so. this is china's internal version we do not interfere but in one in the in two thousand and nine the seal member states signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of the ensuring of information international information security and this is a clean new challenge for the c.e.o. and beyond and. now that the disagreement is into force last summer the member states are. starting to build mechanism of cooperation just a couple of days ago in b.g. the working group. conducted a very fruitful exercise it is shared by russia. and they have.

very large scale plans to develop cooperation in this sphere of cyber security and also to promote the ideas in the international arena namely in the journalism. so yes we shouldn't worry that being the c.e.o. would be one of the advocates of sort of limiting the freedoms. we'll know in the agreement that i quoted you will find all the necessary provisions for the. freedom of speech and free flow of information into the question is the belts ok thank you thank you very much we ran out of time because a pleasure talking to you just to remind him my guest pondicherry today was killed barsky and russian president's special envoy to the shanghai powerful nation calling as a judge and that's it for now from the spotlight will be back with more firsthand

form and find what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on i take it from take. some people if you can what is happening on the streets now as you know you know after quite a day while parts of the house however i totally disagree i don't even think the parts of baghdad. we're still waiting for the actual resolution to have.