well and thanks for joining our to get out past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines peace in syria is up for debate in moscow as special envoy kofi annan arrives in the city for talks with the russian president says that weighs in with more sanctions against the arab country despite efforts by the new one to secure a cease fire. there are doubts over whether the american soldier charged with executing our civilians will see justice served the lawyer for sergeant robert bales and more not all wrong regal battle after he was officially charged with

twenty nine counts of murder attempted murder assault. and the e.u. steps up its measures against iran citing few minutes rights violations for a new range of sanctions critics say the move will hit the iranian people and not their government. spotlight is up next with host al gore no talking to the russian president's special envoy to the shanghai cooperation organization about its goals ten years since its formation stay with us.

hello again awoke from two spotlights. on pipes. a flame i guess. but. the shanghai cooperation organization is holding a joint anti-terrorist texts just the preparation you get as well except one thing is fact refused to take part in the middle. the other part you say it's all right that analysts suppose it may be a sign of a crises the s.c.l. is going through which in turn makes the member states search for a different operation not. as being over a decade since the party with founded but it's still unclear whether it's a military and economic or whatever package 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. can you must. after almost all of russia's east european neighbors join

nato the country turned to asia in search for allies as a result of the shanghai cooperation organization or asio was that she felt one of the new international body uniting china has of stopping the kurdistan russia and make a 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 in. normalizing the situation in afghanistan all of the c.e.o. countries based terrorism and drug trafficking threats from afghanistan and therefore widely interested in the region still because they share a relatively young ten year old organisation asio always still in search of its role in the syrian security and economic goals despite its cooperation with nato many still see it as a counterbalance to the north atlantic alliance. welcome

to the show thank you very much for being with us thank you. first of all i want to ask you the question that we started actually the question why why we wanted you here in the show so is there a clear vision of the moscow vision of the r.v. as see this is primarily a military bloc or more an economic organization as the chinese would definitely want to be well first of all. i would like to stress the importance think he is. neither a military blog nor. integration or economic are going to see. 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 seal which was signed in two thousand to one year after the establishment of the a c o. the seal was set up as an organization to react to the challenges regions of the shanghai fight remember exactly all started in one thousand nine hundred six when. russia has a. kyrgyzstan that you can start on the one side thailand 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 here and today thirty today that the organization is stepping into its second decade and then russia that russia is getting ready to to take over the leadership in the organization what what are the problems k.k.k. go for example can you name one main goal that. has to change and second they don't well. these are earth. i would vote yes. why that. may be 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 goal in has been achieved quite successfully been a little closer to part of the whole one of the problem seems to be that besides the regular summits that are being held by the organization such as we see here here and this is a screen that the cooperation within the cia seems to be more bilateral and multilateral with more emphasis on bilateral agreements and operation rather than multilateral i wouldn't it is so relevant i would only want a great deal 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 c.e.o.

asked to your partners to each other by lecturing and this is also very important factor of the cooperation with the india c.e.o. . but motile extremely 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 all conventions treaties have been signed and what is the most important practical mechanisms been kickstarted and cooperation has begun. and you mentioned that the goals of the is seal i would simply see the 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 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 co-operation between the c.e.o. and other multilateral entities 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 big 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 didn't pakistan's status changed after the parliamentary committee on national security officially officially stressed the necessity of full fledged membership look no it is in me is adverse to. 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 there's consensus on its canada share 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 as you said a regular thing for. every multilateral entity because. all the multilateral organizations are trying to attract partners to become stronger and so on and so for would've been crossed and if you have both pakistan and india within one of their station because they they they are at war with each other. for sure well you have to go to get really i thought 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 the work of the multilateral in the one or two or three we're going to zation is supposed to do before expansion so what the. deal member countries get 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. memorandum of understanding between an applicant state and the c.e.o. to obtain the status of the overfull member now we're doing our whole work in terms of. working out the financial. legal.

administrative conditions this is a very serious thing because the organisation was set up for six countries and all the mechanisms. were for six countries now that we're going to take a decision on expansion and i'm sure that sooner or later the decision will be taken. so the whole mechanism should be reconfigured says killed parsky russian president's special envoy to the s.c.m. spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us so we can feel a sense of you in less than an.

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make your statements. spread the word. keep my cool street. take the cool street brick by click. tommy. its intentions. really clear to the fact. that you. took your security. on archie's. welcome back to spotlight algor and often just a reminder that my guest on the show today is give you a lot of the russian president's special envoy to the shanghai cooperation organization can you we talked about expanding the organization and the c.e.o.

but new countries applying for membership but usually talks about joining that c.l. start always when certain country. is spoiling its relations with the united states south doesn't mean that the c.e.o. really is considered by many at least in the region as a counterweight to the us led west. well i think this is a. very typical view of. western citizen knowing little about their c.e.o. and considering it is. as as and and the us and enable project to entitle a counterweight which is which is does mean am time. 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 received by many in the west as something. compelling against the interests of the western united states in the region but as a c.e.o. 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 really about security is afghanistan's a session for the c.e.o. still on the agenda are you talking about here considering that within that this year this question is related to what do you as. a couple of minutes ago

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 corporation. as. the seal strength and let self 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 of denniston were thirty six delegation is going to you know this is this is very good their children why did we attack conference because

this was nearly three years ago in moscow and it was attended by the u.s. the european union oversee 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 where is the wrong impression i get. at the conference of two thousand i was successful she was a good one says we adopted two documents one was the declaration of war which was supported by all who were the sponsor of the conference and another was a plan of action which was. liberated by the sea or 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 o and it is a neighboring country and the seal member states and wish it to restore peace and security to develop itself and to become an independent and you will solve sufficient. prosperous country and be a seal member states bilaterally or. doing a lot to assist a going to stand as the organisation the c.e.o. is come bearing terrorism and drug trafficking and of a new challenge. has grown in proportions to the level of threat to regional and international peace and stability the us has also and contribution to the. resolution of the complex issues which the afghan people are facing now let's talk about latest news and start speculating

and this is black history and the marsh well the upcoming aesir military exercise on anti-terrorism until she can stand. because that has dropped out and said is not taking part in the maneuvers does it mean as some speculate that there is back a stand they leave the reservation you know there was well what was the reason for his pakistan not to take part in the because it's a it's it's within the main framework it's anti terrorist groups why don't they participate well. and not a little 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. envisaged in article sixteen of

the charter if one member state is not interested in taking part in cooperation you can refrain from but his speech but. it may join cooperation at a later stage. whose biggest fan 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 regular meetings of the finance ministers and they also participate in. the regular exercises military to serve as observance and the solicitations charter doesn't require all the countries to sign an agreement within the total. to

make italy on them 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 e.c. is still considered to be full fledged members that yes yes well this gives a lot of a lot of opportunities for going to zation to grow old if i meet a truck in france wasn't considered a full faced member of nato when they joined the mil train ization navies nato the only thing is c o t creek and army corp i think. we are one of the seeing the rapid growth of economic corp really a sea of and not all the numbers states may be interested in. executive in concrete projects in the sphere of energy sea or transportation

or agriculture but we have agreed within the a sea org 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. corporation especially in the area of counterterrorism. drug trafficking and all security related issues but maybe the conditions are not ripe yet for it was because duncan but the speed with morris is yet to come you mentioned you mentioned color culture is one of the pillars that has ation well i want to quote one of the papers saying recently that china russia prejudiced and is meant to stand submitted a draft code of insertion of code of conduct for information security before the sixty's this united nations general assembly does that mean that the s c l

countries in general and the organization the show high organization in general advocates and 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 you see a member countries are in favor of the promotion of freedom of speech railing in the ring then surely sort of well this is china's internal aversion we do not interfere but in one in the in two thousand and nine the real 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 and beyond and. now that the

disagreement is into force last summer the member states are. starting to build 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 here we shouldn't worry that the c.e.o. will be one of the anglican some sort of limiting the freedom. 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 and internet the question is the belts ok thank you thank you very much we ran out of time and has a pleasure talking to jeff to remind him i guess publisher today was killed barsky and russian president's special envoy to the shanghai cooperation organization that's it put out from the bottle i will be back with more firsthand common fund what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on i take and take. the initiative free credit a should be free. for charges free from a challenge three. three. three. young

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