SCO Leaders Warn Against Monopolistic World Order
Bishkek (dpa) - Leaders of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), including world powers Russia and China, warned Thursday against any attempt to impose a monopolistic world order, a message which analysts took to be meant for Washington.
In a final declaration at their summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, they warned that unilateral actions were not adequate to solving existing problems.
The SCO consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
According to Interfax, the group said they had agreed to create a common structure in order to be able to respond to threats to peace, stability and security. Details of what this structure would be were not immediately divulged.
The declaration warning against a monopolistic world order was taken by analysts as meant for Washington and the Bush administration’s often unilateralist, go-it-alone approach to international issues.
At the summit earlier Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he saw agreement on security policies and the fight against terrorism as the most important goal of the SCO meeting.
The main task of the summit should be “the elimination of terrorism, separatism and extremism,” Putin told journalists in Bishkek before the meeting.
The SCO was founded in 2001 as a security-led forum but has since expanded into other areas of cooperation.
Chinese President Hu Jintao said the summit would also focus on economic cooperation between the six countries.
Indirect criticism of the United States came from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who attended the CSO parley as an observer, amid Iran’s wish to become a member of the group.
Ahmadinejad blasted the US missile defence plans as a threat to a large part of Asia. He said that planned system, generally believed to be aimed at destroying missiles fired from Iran, threatens not just one country but an entire continent.
“Unfortunately some countries have become accustomed to speak from a position of force and threat,” Ahmadinejad said without naming the US directly.
The Iranian leader also said that the US invasion of Iraq had brought “violent difficulties and great misfortune” to the people of the region.
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August 16th, 2007 at 9:00 am
This is the ultimate disaster the bush crime family has brought down on our planet. The movement toward a united planet and people we humans have been moving toward for millennia has been set back decades if not centuries by the crime families stupidity.
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
August 16th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Imagine world leaders having to join forces against our country’s batshit crazy leader. Who would have ever thought that the U.S. would get to this level.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Well , one, got my links fixed for your new digs. Two It is my fervent deseire over the last couple of days that other countries sanction us !! Our government is not listening to us little people, and we are acting as a rogue nation, including the wholesale spyng and chilling of our constitutional rights. WE the People need help now stopping these Mad Men/women of both parties. The POD people NEOs - have taken our vote, spy on us , threaten martial law, bombard us with propaganda. Yeah, our flag should be upside down. HELP !!
In fact i’ve been on a roll with these topics on my wee blog and a bit on LM , so i will not repeat it here..When i saw the Petreaus Report was gonna come straight from PNAC’s Mad King George 43 - i said …”like we did not smell this coming from a mile away” my screed, heartfelt that it is can be found under a post called Pathological liers and Criminals or business as usual.
You guys never fail to have the latest news - Thank you for all your hard work and dedication ! Enjoy your new digs.
August 16th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
ProudP:
I think other countries placing sanctions on us would be great. Then they can call Bush a rogue leader like Bush does to everyone else.
The Petraeus report was not a surprise, I would expect anything less out of the Bush Lie House.
Thanks for changing your link. We try hard to stay on top of things.