(17.06.2019)
The SCO is bound to significantly expand by 2020, with possible full membership for both Turkey and Iran. It will then feature all major players of Eurasia integration. Considering the current incandescence in the geopolitical chessboard, it’s hardly an accident a crucial protagonist in Bishkek was the ‘observer’ state Iran.
Die strategischen Bomber des Typs Tu-95MS und zwei chinesische strategische Bomber des Typs H6-K seien eine geplante Route über neutralem Gewässer im Ostmeer und Ostchinesischen Meer abgeflogen, hieß es in einer Presseerklärung des Ministeriums.
„The United States strongly supports our ROK and Japanese allies and their responses to airspace incursions by Chinese and Russian aircraft,“ Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn said in response to a query from Yonhap News Agency, referring to South Korea by its official name, the Republic of Korea.
Japan, das Anspruch auf Dokdo erhebt, ließ ebenfalls Kampfjets aufsteigen und spricht von einer Verletzung seines Luftraums.
Der Pentagon-Sprecher ließ mit seiner Formulierung offen, wessen Luftraum verletzt worden war.
Moscow and Beijing have been steadily ramping up what he described as a „quasi-alliance,“ said Artyom Lukin, an international relations scholar at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. He described the incident as one designed to showcase their shared power, „sending a message to Tokyo, Seoul and Washington.“
„Frankly speaking, I was surprised when I read this news,“ Lukin said. „I didn’t expect this action would be so bold and provocative.“
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan had suggested ditching US dollar, urging the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to finalise arrangements for trade in local currencies.
The Trump administration’s claims Iran attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman were quickly debunked, with the ship’s crew saying it “was hit by a flying object.” But the US disrupted important Iranian diplomatic efforts at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
In a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 19th SCO Summit late on Friday, he added that Russia and Iran are alongside each other in the regional and international circles and implementation of economic deals between them is going ahead well.
Vladimir Putin met with the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani. The two leaders spoke after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.
Hassan Rouhani and Xi Jinping in their meeting on Friday discussed bilateral ties as well as the latest regional and international developments.
President Rouhani was officially welcomed by Kyrgyzstan premier on Thursday when he arrived in Bishkek to attend the 19th SCO Summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met president of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev today and hold bilateral meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Imran Khan is visiting Bishkek on 13 and 14 June, 2019, to attend the 19th Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State (CHS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
PM Imran Khan arrives at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic for the 19th Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State of the SCO.
Vladimir Putin attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
Das 19. Gipfeltreffen der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit (SCO) hat am Freitag in der kirgisischen Hauptstadt Bischkek stattgefunden.
Xi is paying the visits at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, according to Lu.
The Indian Air Force operation inside Pakistan was also an electoral campaign issue highlighted extensively by the BJP and Modi as an achievement of a muscular security policy.
In a statement, CEO office said, at the sideline of the Summit, Abdullah will meet with the President of Tajikistan, Prime Ministers of Russia, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan, Belarus and Foreign Secretary of India.
China’s Foreign Ministry reports that Li Keqiang is paying an official working visit to Belgium and official visits to the Netherlands and Tajikistan.
There is no obstacle to Iran’s full membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Iranian Ambassador to China Ali Asghar Khaji told Radio Eghtesad on June 10.
Iran has officially applied for membership in SCO while it is present in the organization as an observer state, Khaji noted.
Dabei wies Xi Jinping darauf hin, das umfassende Abkommen über die iranische Atomfrage sei ein wichtiges Resultat des Multilateralismus und diene einer Wahrung von Frieden und Stabilität im Nahen Osten sowie dem internationalen Atomsperrsystem. So müsse es kontinuierlich und auch tatsächlich umgesetzt werden. China plädiere immer dafür, dass internationale Kontroversen und Konflikte auf friedliche Weise beigelegt werden sollen.
Das 18. Gipfeltreffen der Shanghaier Kooperationsorganisation (SCO) ist am Sonntag in der ostchinesischen Stadt Qingdao eröffnet worden. Chinas Staatspräsident Xi Jinping leitet die Sitzungen.
(28.5.2018) The invitation to Mr. Rouhani at a crucial time after the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal signed in 2015 between Iran, the European Union and the P5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany), of which China is a member.
Derzeit vertritt die SOZ circa 40 % der Weltbevölkerung und stellt damit die weltweit größte Regionalorganisation dar.
The exercise will follow the 18th SCO Summit, scheduled for June 9 and 10 in Qingdao, Shandong province.
The government said in a statement that the two sides reviewed the follow-up action on the understandings reached at the Wuhan Informal Summit and discussed the agenda for bilateral engagement in the coming months, including the preparations for the forthcoming Modi-Xi meeting at the SCO Summit in Qingdao on June 9-10, 2018.
Dabei sagte Wang Yi, beide Länder sollten enger zusammenarbeiten und eine konstruktive Rolle bei der Förderung der Kooperationen zwischen den BRICS-Staaten und der Entwicklung der multilateralen Mechanismen wie die Shanghaier Kooperationsorganisation spielen.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is reportedly scheduled to visit China later this week to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit along with his Chinese and Russian counterparts. This event will offer a chance to promote collaboration after US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the Iran nuclear deal.
Xi fügt hinzu, als eine wichtige Brücke zum Austausch und zur Zusammenarbeit zwischen allen SCO- Mitgliedern sollten Medien mit allen Kräften den Shanghai-Geists verbreiten, die pragmatische Zusammenarbeit fördern und Freundschaft zwischen den Völkern stiften.
Der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping traf sich am Dienstag mit den Führungen ausländischer Delegationen beim 13. Treffen der Sicherheitsratssekretäre der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit (SOZ) in Beijing.
Während des Treffens schlug Xi vor, dass die SOZ-Mitgliedsländer das gemeinsame, umfassende, kooperative und nachhaltige Sicherheitskonzept aufrechterhalten und ein Modell der Sicherheitspolitik fördern, das sowohl Symptome als auch Ursachen anspricht, um die SOZ-Sicherheitszusammenarbeit auf eine neue Ebene voranzutreiben.
Xi sagte, China und Russland sollten die führende Rolle des ranghohen Kontakts und Austausches für die bilateralen Beziehungen entfalten und gemeinsam das Völkerrecht sowie allgemein anerkannte internationale Regeln aufrechterhalten. Beijing und Moskau könnten ihre Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit (SCO), BRICS-Staaten und der G20-Gruppe verstärken.
And just like clockwork, an extra Russia-Iran integration node may be added as Tehran is expected to join the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEU) before the end of the year. The free trade EEU – now harboring Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam – is attracting interest from everyone from China, India and Indonesia to Serbia, Israel and South American nations. Erdogan is certainly paying attention.(…)
With the prospect of Syrian reconstruction finally at hand, Beijing will turbo-charge its plans to turn Syria into a key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) node.
The strengthening of what should be viewed as the Putin-Xi era could not but render Western liberals – and neoliberals – absolutely livid.
Capitalist interests have always believed their own propaganda narrative, which directly links capitalist expansion with the inevitable spread of democracy.
Critical thinking is, at last, debunking it as a grand illusion.