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“Iran Applies to Join Security Bloc Dominated by Russia and China”
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
April 03, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - Stepping up a campaign to join a Eurasian security and economic bloc dominated by Russia and China, Iran is looking for allies within the organization to back its bid, but political analysts doubt it will succeed.
Late last month, Iran secured the support of one of the members of the six-country Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Tajikistan, which later this year will host the bloc’s annual summit.
Established in its current form in 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) comprises Russia, China, and four Central Asian states — Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Together they control a large proportion of the non-Arab world’s oil and natural gas reserves.
The SCO is mainly focused on fighting the “three evils” of terrorism, extremism and separatism, but in recent years, attempts to deny the U.S. military basing rights in Central Asia raised concerns that Moscow and Beijing view the SCO as a tool to counter U.S. security interests.”