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At its fifth and watershed summit in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, in June of 2005, when representatives of India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan attended an SCO summit for the first time, the president of the country hosting the summit, Nursultan Nazarbayev, greeted the guests in words that had never before been used in any context: "The leaders of the states sitting at this negotiation table are representatives of half of humanity.”

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"The contours of an alliance of five non-Western civilizations – Russian, Chinese, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist – began to materialize."

In December the Chief of the Russian General Staff at the time, Yuri Baluyevsky, announced "Our goal is to organise such multi-country military

exercises [with both India and China] within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation." [21]

A Pakistani commentary in the same period drew attention to the purpose of such exercises:

"NATO was often regarded as the hidden fist behind a peaceful US-led drive for equal access to the vast energy resources of the successor states of the Soviet Union."

India is, as a member of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, China, India) and RIC (Russia, India, China; the Strategic Triangle that former Russian foreign minister and prime minister Yevgeny Primakov spoke of in 1998) group of nations, as a major economic power in its own right and as a nation of over one billion citizens, that country in the world which can decide whether efforts by the SCO and complementary ones in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East toward securing a democratic, peaceful, prosperous and safe world system are successfully expedited or are made more laborious, painful and costly by artificially prolonging the disproportionate and by now manifestly unjust and disastrous power of the major Western states in and over the world.

En fin, ik heb genoeg gehoord! Laten we zorgen dat we ons goed bewapenen: ideologisch, economisch, en militair, voor wat komen gaat! Wat u?

qrnlk schreef:Mensen/volkeren verenigen zich voornamelijk rond overeenkomstigheden, niet rond verschillen. Gegeven genoeg externe of interne druk worden alle verschillen snel onzichtbaar en ziet men alleen de wederzijdse gelijkheid nog.

Andere mensen, die geen deelnemers zijn en niet onderworpen zijn aan dezelfde invloeden, zullen voornamelijk de verschillen blijven zien en zich er over verbazen dat ze kunnen samenwerken.

qrnlk schreef:Staten zijn slechts tijdelijke, quasi-stabiele structuren die voortkomen uit de onderliggende mensenmassa (volkeren); Staten kunnen meerdere volkeren verenigen indien daar reden toe is, maar de ondergang van een staat betekend meestal niet de ondergang van een volk; Dezelfde mensen vormen vanzelf weer een nieuwe quasi-stabiele structuur, een nieuwe staat.

De meeste steden zijn ook stabielere structuren dan de staten of landen waar ze (tijdelijk) onderdeel vanuit maken.

Though the SCO's presence in the region is growing, it is still not very strong, most experts say. As opposed to a fully developed counterpoint to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the SCO serves more as a forum to discuss trade and security issues, including counterterrorism and drug trafficking. http://www.cfr.org/publication/10883/

The address by Russia's Putin also included these comments:

“We now clearly see the defectiveness of the monopoly in world finance and the policy of economic selfishness. To solve the current problem Russia will to take part in changing the global financial structure so that it will be able to guarantee stability and prosperity in the world and to ensure progress.”

"The world is seeing the emergence of a qualitatively different geo-political situation, with the emergence of new centers of economic growth and political influence.

"We will witness and take part in the transformation of the global and regional security and development architectures adapted to new realities of the 21st century, when stability and prosperity are becoming inseparable notions." [43]

The world is at a historical crossroad with the security and even survival of humanity at stake. One path continues along the way that has been pursued to date, of the right of might and every person for himself regardless of the consequences.

The other is one of a more rational, just, peaceful and multipolar alternative.http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=13707

Moscow has experienced a number of setbacks with regard to the SCO. The most important of these occurred at the Dushanbe summit itself when the SCO members refused to endorse Moscow’s military action vis-à-vis Georgia or its recognition of Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. Although both the SCO and Russian membership in the organization will undoubtedly continue, these events suggest that the SCO’s utility for advancing Russian foreign policy aims is quite limited http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/center/ess...ark_N_Katz.html.

Ik zie dit als een nieuwe stap richting 1984

Ik vraag me af of twee polen beter is dan 7 polen. Je hebt immers maar een idioot nodig.