This summer the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will conduct joint military exercises called “Peace Mission-2007″. The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) will closely observe the drills. For the first time, the two organizations will act as partners rather than representing overlapping multilateral structures seeking to fight terrorism, extremism, and separatism in Eurasia. However, the drills [...]

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) energy club should become field for discussion and enforcement joint projects in energy and transit sector, participants of roundtable “Perspectives of formation of the SCO energy club” said in Tashkent.
Gulnara Karimova, director of Political Studies Centre, said the post-Soviet states started to play important role in global energy market.
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The SCO is a potential threat to America and the west. Here’s some background material on this organization.
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization which was founded on June 14, 2001 by leaders of the China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Except for Uzbekistan, the other countries had been members [...]

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MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (UPI) — In late February-early March, generals from six member-countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will meet for a regular, third round of consultations in the training center and shooting grounds of the 34th motor rifle division in the Volga-Urals Military District near the Ural town of Chebarkul. They will discuss [...]

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Six member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held their second round of consultation in Shanghai on Wednesday through Friday to prepare for a joint anti-terror military exercise in 2007 in Russia, according to the Ministry of National Defense.
Representatives of the six countries’ defense ministries participated in the meeting and conferred on a series [...]

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ALMATY. The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) has all reasons to become one of the most important bases for a new global order. Kassymzhomart Tokayev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, has stated this in a welcoming address to participants of an international conference “The SCO: Results and Perspectives”, read by Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Vice Foreign Minister of [...]

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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti defense commentator Viktor Litovkin) - In an announcement that would have been sensational if it had not been so logical, Chief of Staff of the Russian military Army General Yury Baluevsky said that the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) were planning their first theater-level military exercise.
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is to consider cooperating with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in fighting terrorism, said a leading SCO anti-terror official.
SCO members made the decision to study the move during a review of their achievements in the 8th meeting of the SCO regional anti-terror agency council in [...]

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a major vehicle for a Chinese-Russian strategic cooperation, is exerting increasing pressure on US strategic interests in Central Asia. Robust engagement with the SCO by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would offer Washington the best way of containing the group�s rising influence.

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization Reaches a Milestone
Five years into its existence the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), led by Russia and China, is gaining importance as a counterbalance to America�s perceived dominance.
The five-year jubilee summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in its founding city this June was somewhat overshadowed in Russia by the preparations [...]

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In 1996, five countries�China, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan�formed an organiza�tion, the Shanghai Five, to resolve border disputes among its members. With the addition of Uzbekistan in 2001, it became the Shanghai Cooperation Organi�zation (SCO), a grouping of Russia, China, and a number of under-developed and developing nations with little to bind [...]

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By Stephen Blank
It is an established fact among U.S. officials: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is China’s primary multilateral instrument to implement its openly anti-U.S. policy in Central Asia. The recently concluded fifth anniversary summit of the SCO in Shanghai confirmed its anti-U.S. proclivities. The SCO’s communiqu� reiterated its opposition to the [...]

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If you’ve been paying attention then you are probably concerned about the growing military power of China. Well, the nightmare is about to get worse with the emergence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The SCO has the potential to become the most powerful alliance on earth, combining Russia�s energy, military and technology expertise; China and [...]

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