Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. File photoTASHKENT, Aug 24 The role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a new center of power is growing against the background of a turbulent international situation, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu believes. Eight countries are members of the SCO today: in addition to Russia , these are India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.The West is consumed with pangs of jealousy «Under these conditions, the role of the SCO is steadily growing as a new center of power, a model of interstate relations based on equality and mutual respect, a guarantor of compliance with international law,» Shoigu said on Wednesday at a meeting of defense ministers of the SCO countries. «Therefore, — he emphasized, “it is important to strengthen cooperation in the military sphere, to regularly consult in bilateral and multilateral formats on issues of common security.” Such approaches are recorded in the final documents prepared for signing during the current meeting, the Russian Defense Minister said. According to him, «today's meeting is taking place against the backdrop of an extremely unstable international situation.»
We don't know where we are going,» Kissinger diagnosed America «In the region of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as well as in the world as a whole, threats are aggravating, local crises do not subside, new serious challenges are emerging,» Shoigu said «The United States of America and the collective West,» he noted, «in an effort to maintain global dominance, are exerting unprecedented pressure on independent states. To this end, overt blackmail, threats, color revolutions and coup d'état are used, and gross disinformation is being spread.» «As a result of confrontational actions of the West and the sanctions it imposes, the situation in the world economy is deteriorating, communications, art are collapsing It's creating a food crisis,» the Russian Defense Minister said.
