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hello again the wall come to party like the palm pilots and i'll bring all the old flame i guess. the shanghai cooperation organization is holding a joint anti-terrorist texts the preparation well except one thing is fact refused to take part in the loop the other part of you say it's all right but analysts suppose it may be a sign of crises they see i was going through which in turn makes the member states search for a different operation not. it's been over a decade since the party with founded but it's still unclear whether it's the military and economic or whatever. so what's the organization's goals and how this

is going to develop in the future we're asking the russian president's special envoy to the c.e.o. . must. after almost all of russia's east european neighbors joy nato the country turn to asia in search for allies as a result of the shanghai cooperation organization or. that she feels why the new international body united china hasn't stopped her just russia and used to stand was initially given the cold shoulder by the west things changed after obama became us president that was when nato started seeking the s e o's assistance and. normalizing the situation in afghanistan all of the c.e.o. countries face terrorism and drug trafficking threats from afghanistan and therefore widely interested in the region still does ation a relatively young ten year old organisation asio is still in search of its role

for syrian security and economic goals despite its cooperation with nato many still see it as a counterbalance to the north atlantic alliance. hello welcome to the show thank you very much for for being with us thank you. first of all i would ask you the question that we started actually the question why why we wanted you here in the show so is a clear vision of the moscow. vision of the of the as c. this is primarily a military or. economic organization as the chinese would definitely want it to be well first of all. i would like to stress the importance think this is. a military block nor. integration or economic i'm going to say. the as c.e.o.

is a full fledged regional organization. which has. a wide spectrum of. tasks and. all of those aims and purposes of the organizations are in shrine in the charter of the a c o 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 organization to react to the challenges real challenges to the shanghai fight remember exactly all started in one thousand nine hundred six when. russia. kyrgyzstan the dick is still on the wild side trail in china on the outside so i signed an

important agreement on confidence building measures in the border area and later an 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 in. security interests economic interests why shouldn't they continue working together he added thirty two they did the organization is stepping into its second decade and then russia that russia is getting ready to take to take over the leadership in the organization what would be probably those could take it go further what can you mean one may go that. has three achieve it second take them well. peace on earth affair have i would vote yes. no i don't 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 still charter to promote good neighborly and friendly relationship between the countries of the region and so far this goal in has been achieved quite successfully been a little set of problems or one of the problem seems to be that the sounds the regular summits that are being held by the organization such as we see here here and they screen the corporation within their c.e.o. seems to be more bilateral and multilateral one emphasis and bilateral agreements and cooperation rather than multilateral i wouldn't it is so relevant i would want a great note of course bilateral 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 seal astra digic partners to each other by literally and this is also a very important factor of the cooperation with the india c.e.o. . but motile actually i would say for the last ten years. the organization has set out. very strong pyramid of mechanisms of cooperation a lot of agreements all conventions treaties have been signed and what is the most important practical mechanisms have been kickstarter and cooperation has begun. and you mentioned the goals of the

a seal i would simply see that there are three pillars of the organizations one is and this is the top priority of the seal is made it is a 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 now as the shanghai cooperation organization is entering its second decade 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 cooperation between the a c.e.o. and other multilateral entity and starting from the un and ending up with regional organizations have been 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 though it has to expand in order to survive which finally usually kills not who comes to be a good guys up there this is like that is a c.e.o. considering expansion of course what you do is 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 will i i did didn't pakistan's status changed after lead the parliamentary committee on national security officially officially stressed the necessity of full fledged membership to not know me as a person to observe the. and they filed official applications to become full

members of the game is asians and excuse me. i would like to finish the list india has clearly indicated that it will be in a position to put forward the official application as soon as this consensus on its canada show with m.v.s. you so while we are having those occasions on the table of course the issue of expression is here expression is as you sever legs and 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 organization because they they they are at war with each other. for sure well here to discuss really i thought my whole life 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 for me not to work for we're going to run all political organization is supposed to do before expansion so what to be a single member countries have done is that in two thousand and nine they adopted. regulations on admission of new members and in the year two thousand and ten. the approved list. all memorandum of understanding between an applicant state and the a c o two ops

team 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 are going to take a decision on expansion and i'm sure the sooner or later decisions will be taken. so the whole mechanism should be should be reconfigured says killed part of his russian president's special envoy to the s.c.l. spotlighting will be back shortly after a break so stay with us well we'll consider sincerely in less than an.

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feeds now in the palm of your. question on the call. welcome back to spotlight algren oven just reminded of my guest on the show today is killed by the ski russian president's special envoy to the shanghai cooperation organization q we've talked about about expanding the organization of the c.e.o. the new countries applying for membership but usually charts joining their c.e.o. start always when certain country. is spoiling its relations with the united states 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 this c.e.o. and considering it is. as as an m t u.s. antenatal project the answer is a counterweight which is which is does mean anti-world. 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 of. the as c.e.o. was perceived by many in the west as something. compelling against the interests of the west and of the united states in the region

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

will be a seal strengthened that self and demonstrated its potential to be a useful. regional platform for cooperation and we welcome this new assessment in may way. we 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 with thirty six delegation is absolutely you know this is this is very good that you're widely of that conference because this was nearly three years ago when moscow and it was attended by the u.s. the european union you always see the g eight nato but since then. the c.e.o. has has been pretty passive in their address in the afghan issue is it right or

or or is there all the wrong impression i get. at the conference the virtue thousand mile of successful she was a good one says we're not the two documents one was the declaration of war which was supported by all who but the sponsor of the conference and another was a plan of action which was. liberated by the c. a 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 are. doing a lot to a system going to stand as the organization the c.e.o. is combating terrorism and drug trafficking and other new challenge which is. has grown in proportions to the level of threat to regional and international peace and stability let's this is also a contribution to the. resolution of the complex issues to which the afghan people of a single let's talk about latest news and start speculating and this is back to stand the marsh well the upcoming aesir military exercise on anti-terrorism and to take a stand. because that has dropped out and there is not taking part in in the middle east does it mean as some speculate that that is back as time may leave the

reservation you know there was well what was the reason for his pakistan not take part in them because i think it's it's within the main framework it's anti terrorist groups and why don't they participate well. and multilateral organisation consists of member states and all member states have their own interests and not always the concrete interests of the member states coincide and. they have a right to participate in this or that cooperation and by the way this is. in visit in article sixteen of the charter and if one member state is not interested in taking part in cooperation you can refrain from but a speech but. it may join cooperation at

a later stage. was because stan did not sign an agreement. on military cooperation. of two thousand and eight although. 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 solicitations charter doesn't require all the countries to sign an agreement with them. to make it illegal never and you can continue to be a full fledged member of the seal without joining one of the major field of cooperation of course of course is you still are considered to be for those members that yes yes this gives a lot of a lot of opportunities for his asian to grow old if i meet

a truck in france wasn't considered a full face member of nato when they did join the military as ation member of nato the c.e.o. is the c.e.o. take the konami cooperation i think. we are one of weakness seeing the rapid growth of economic cooperation v.s.e. of and not all the number of states may be interested in. executive in concrete projects in the sphere of energy say or presentation 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 the speed actively in. the a c.

or corporation is specially in the area of counterterrorism. drug trafficking and all security related issues but maybe the conditions are not ripe enough for as big a standard but to speak out about this is yet to come you mentioned you mentioned culture culture is one of the pillars there is a show well i want to quote one of the papers saying recently that china russia and is better than submitted a draft code of vince personal code of conduct for information security before the sixty's this united nations general assembly does that mean that the asio 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 railing injuring the internet so. this is china's internal version we do not interfere but in one in the in two thousand and nine the still member states signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of the ensuring of information international information security and this is a clear new challenge for the c.e.o. and beyond and. now. the disagreement is into force last summer and the member states are. starting to build mechanism of corporation 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 fear of cyber security and also to promote. the idea in the international arena namely in the journalism. so here we shouldn't worry that the d.s.t.o. will 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 the free flow of information in the internet the question is the balance ok thank you thank you very much we ran out of time it was a pleasure talking to you just to remind them my guest on the show today was killed parsky a russian president's special envoy to the shanghai cooperation organization and i

said flat out from the spotlight will be back with more firsthand common fund what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on i take and take. care tommy clouds. plan to run its intentions. clear to. the two thousand to nuclear security summit. on r.t. . all

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