Astana to Bleach Color Revolutions
The annual meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (or SCO) opens today, July 5, in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Established in 1996 as the Shanghai Five (four members of CIS plus China), today’s SCO views not only the territorial expansion but is also willing to seal common rules of the game that would cover the vast area starting from the Central Asia and up to India. Reinforced by the concept of joint battle against terrorism, expansionism and separatism, SCO may well count on being able to oppose the U.S. influence in the region and to prevent new color revolutions.
The significance of today’s meeting in Astana would be hard to overestimate, if for no other reason than that at least three regional leaders – Iran, Pakistan and India – are expected to join the SCO as observers. Now SCO unites Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan, and Mongolia is the observer.
Moreover, unlike the previous summits, along with the leaders of old-timer states, Mongolia’s President Nambariin Enkhbayar, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and Iran President Mohamed Hatami, who is getting ready to make way for successor, attend the Event, undoubtedly raising its magnitude.
To add to the planned expansion, SCO is likely to crucially revise the concept, first of all, in a move to oppose the co-called color revolutions. As the SCO’s leaders apparently never doubt such revolutions are triggered by outside forces or backed up from outside, SCO’s opposition will surely be based on collective actions targeted at preventing some foreign plot staged either by the international terrorism or stemmed from the U.S. desire to bring the world up to hand. To this effect, Astana’s summit is expected to seal the concept of joint opposition to the three core evils of our time - terrorism, extremism and separatism. “It is a very important document that will built up a theoretical basis for further definite actions,” Kazakh Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokaev said yesterday.
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