The flag of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the flags of the SCO member states. File photoQINGDAO, China, Jul 29The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should not and cannot remain indifferent against the backdrop of curtailing a constructive dialogue between the states of the world and attempts to «delete» an entire country from world history, culture, science and sports, SCO Deputy Secretary General Grigory Logvinov said on Friday. has entered a period of changes of a historical, tectonic order, accompanied by unprecedented upheavals that affect all spheres of international life and from which practically no state or association is able to stay away,» Logvinov said, speaking at the opening of the Forum of Media and Think Tanks of the SCO countries. He noted that the genotype of the SCO did not initially contain confrontational elements, at the same time, «the organization should not and cannot remain indifferent against the backdrop of how an equal, constructive dialogue between various states of the world is consistently curtailed, which is increasingly being replaced by force dictate and unauthorized m sanctions pressure, the world economy, which has not yet fully recovered from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, is being devastated not just by a wave of unprecedented unauthorized sanctions, but in the full sense of the word economic war. world history, culture, science and sports. What is happening objectively necessitates a rethinking of the SCO’s line of conduct in the international arena,” the SCO Deputy Secretary General said. a representative and fair world order based on the rule of international law, primarily the UN Charter, respect for civilizational diversity and independent choice by peoples of the path of their political and socio-economic development, equal partnership of states in the interests of ensuring equal, joint, indivisible, comprehensive and sustainable security. “Obviously, the time has come to start translating this political directive into practical deeds, to use the potential of the organization in order to prevent further degradation of international relations, not to allow the mentality and logic of the Cold War to finally come to an end. dominate the world,» he stressed.
