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ER Editor: Russia stops its participation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Meanwhile, Putin meets Xi yet again at the SCO summit (Shanghai Co-operation Organization) in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization is bedrock of multipolar world – Putin
The SCO has been strengthening its role on the global stage, according to the Russian president
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding to become a power center in a world that is evolving towards multipolarity, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Putin made the statement during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday at the SCO summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The members of the SCO account for some 20% of global GDP. The grouping was founded in 2001 by China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Iran became the newest member of the organization last year, after India and Pakistan joined in 2017.
SCO in Astana.
Eurasia rocks around the clock. pic.twitter.com/gTnPzItZfy
— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) July 4, 2024
See also this by Zerohedge –
Putin & Xi Meet Again, Plot Countering US, While White House Consumed With Crisis Of Biden’s Decline
In their second face-to-face meeting in as many months, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that “Russian-Chinese relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation are in the best period of their history.” Russian state media subsequently likened it to a golden age in relations.
The two are meeting once again at the annual session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which runs Wednesday through Thursday in the Kazakh capital of Astana. “Russia-China relations are on the highest level in history, and they are not aimed against anyone, we do not create blocs or unions, we just act in the interests of our nations,” Putin stressed.
SCO summit in Astana.
Now THAT’S what a multipolar/multi-nodal Eurasia gala dinner is all about. pic.twitter.com/cx0FBBFZn9
— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) July 4, 2024
Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping at the SCO annual summit yesterday in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Rome was not built in one day. And neither will the multipolar world.
Russia and China are approaching this with a multidimensional strategy — SCO, BRICS, BRI, dedollarization etc. pic.twitter.com/YWLayrnWcS
— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) July 4, 2024
⚡️ Belarus officially joined #SCO as a full member. The number of SCO members now reached 10. #Astana #Kazakhstan pic.twitter.com/aAj3lVbJYB
— The Astana Times (@TheAstanaTimes) July 4, 2024
We urge readers to remember this photo if the world seems to be dividing itself up in seemingly hostile ways —
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ER: Here is the website of the OSCE – Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. This all sounds to us like the demise of the OSCE. Who needs it when the world is moving to BRICS-based groupings?
Russia halts participation in OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Moscow has accused the organization of double standards and Russophobia
RT
Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted to suspend Moscow’s participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA), citing its “discriminatory approaches, double standards and total Russophobia.”
Both chambers of Russia’s parliament – the State Duma and Federation Council – voted unanimously during sessions on Wednesday to suspend the country’s participation and stop paying fees to the organization.
Moscow already stopped its payments to the OSCE itself after its delegation was denied access to the organization’s meetings on several occasions.
“We should not pay for something we did not participate in,” the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said at the time.
OSCE leaders have ignored Russia’s repeated appeals for an equal dialogue, the lawmakers said in a statement, adding that the body is being used as a “politicized tool to deliberately implement an anti-Russian course, and also to intentionally distort” events in Ukraine.
The lawmakers accused the assembly of “biased, discriminatory approaches, double standards, total Russophobia, unpreparedness for meaningful discussions, including on relevant issues of ensuring equal and indivisible security.”
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, Russian MPs have been repeatedly blocked from taking part in a number of the organization’s events.
In November 2022, Poland denied visas to Russian officials scheduled to attend an OSCE meeting in Warsaw. And in June 2022, Russian MPs were barred from traveling to the UK to participate in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session in Birmingham.
The latest case was a “demonstrative” refusal by Romanian authorities to issue visas in June to a Russian delegation to attend the annual session of the body in Bucharest.
Russia has been a participant in the OSCE since the Soviet Union signed the Helsinki Accords in 1975. The organization’s monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, but was terminated just prior to the start of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. Russia had previously repeatedly accused the group of ignoring violations by Ukraine.
Having held its first session back in 1992, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly incorporates 57 member states, and declares as its primary mission the facilitation of “inter-parliamentary dialogue to advance the OSCE’s goals of comprehensive security.”
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