12.07.2015 02:46
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he began his way to yoga with spiritual development. Perhaps the message was the most memorable event of the SCO summit and the BRICS in Ufa. Not that the Congress of the 15 presidents and prime ministers from four continents were waiting for a lot, but this result is somewhat upset in Bashkiria gathered journalists. On the main results of the summit talks of Polit.ru.
Technically, the main event can still be considered the beginning of the procedure for the adoption of the SCO in India and Pakistan. The news, of course, was not – it was expanding, we can say routine. During the bilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Islam Karimov’s second, following the ritual, he expressed doubts about the need to expand. « How will the process of accession of these two states, if we assume that the state is not ordinary, and possess nuclear weapons? When viewed through this prism, tomorrow their entry into the SCO has not only changed the political map, but I think that can change the balance of Cu and l “, – Karimov said at the meeting. “Islam Karimov, and will look like: Uzbek President Karimov has led the SCO India and Pakistan and created a new political reality of the world?” – Putin replied wittily, using the fact that after the summit in Ufa is Uzbekistan became the chairman of the organization and in 2016 Tashkent SCO summit will take.
Do not become a barrier to entry into the SCO even India and Pakistan, to put it mildly, strained relations between the two countries – in its short history, the two main parts of the former British India managed to spend three full-scale wars, and clashes on the border happen today. On the relation of the two countries said at least the fact that the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif thanked the Russian side for receiving separately, after which Modi congratulated his colleague with the entry into the SCO, but never got a response congratulations. However, precisely because of the difficult relations clear and synchronization procedures for the two countries.
Before you can become full members of the SCO, India and Pakistan should ratify three dozen documents, including the Treaty on Long-Term Good-Neighborliness, stating that the parties are obliged to respect the principle of inviolability of borders, active efforts “to build confidence in the military field in the border area, based on the determination to make the borders with each other borders of eternal peace and friendship.” Which corresponds to these beautiful words can be understood remembering that at the borders, such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Uzbekistan and then a firefight.
However, the leaders of the SCO, except Islam Karimov did not express any doubt that from the first in the history of the expansion (since the transformation of the “Shanghai Five” in the SCO), the organization will benefit. The only country that until recently actually opposed the expansion of the SCO to the south was China.
For Beijing, the format of the club, which brings together Central Asian countries, Russia and China have been useful in that it allows, in theory, to promote its economic interests in regional coordinating actions with Russia, whose influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union eased but not disappeared. But Russia blocked the SCO Development Bank, which by virtue of its economic power, in any case, would dominate China. In Ufa, Putin said the continuation of the work on the creation of the Development Bank of the special accounts and the SCO, but still urged greater use of existing capabilities and regional financial institutions: the Eurasian Development Bank, Asian Bank of infrastructure investments and create new bank of BRICS.
So at some point the concept of Beijing regularly changed. To carry out its policy in Central Asia is now being used not SCO, and the concept of “economic belt of the Silk Road” – not yet institutionalized the idea, the essence of which is a sharp intensification of cooperation between China and the countries of Central Asia and the Middle East, among whose objectives – providing the best connectivity East and West Eurasian
Russia in these plans in China there is a very conditional, that after the confrontation with the West over the Crimea and the unfolding of the war in the east of Ukraine became even more upset Moscow. As a result, Russia now seems to be planning to use the SCO as a platform for dialogue between Beijing and its own integration project – Eurasian Economic Union.
«The general opinion of Russia and China that the SCO is very convenient and comfortable for all platform to discuss specific aspects of such an initiative, “- said on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It is not just about the Russian-Chinese draft, he suggested leaders of the two countries, but must have a multilateral dimension, the diplomat said.
So far, the SCO that the BRICS – quite insignificant organization. They look can be powerful, but their member states are not going to act in their favor is not the slightest part of their sovereignty, and the contradictions among its members missing.
About the BRICS a lot is the fact that almost the most notable achievements of the summit of Ufa – the emergence of an agreement to create a pool of foreign exchange reserves and contingent Virtual Secretariat. New BRICS bank with a capital of $ 100 billion has not yet started to work – and this capital he will not immediately, the country will make money slowly, but most of it will be in the form of demand deposits in the national treasury. But the economic interests of BRICS largely overlap, they compete for foreign direct investment, with the latest technology, for the status of an international financial center, etc. Therefore, it is possible that in the management of the bank may be difficult if it is, of course, turn into anything like a significant financial institution.
The SCO is probably a convenient platform for dialogue in China, Russia and Central Asian states, but experience shows that, despite the many treaties, declarations, memoranda, working groups and so on. e., no more scale to build on this platform is not possible, though, of course, any organization, which includes both China and India, looks impressive .
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