{"id":1475366,"date":"2024-07-05T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1475366"},"modified":"2024-07-05T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:45:00","slug":"belarus-joins-so-called-anti-nato-sco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/belarus-joins-so-called-anti-nato-sco\/1475366\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Joins So-Called “Anti-NATO” SCO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belarus Joins So-Called “Anti-NATO” SCO<\/span><\/p>\n

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On July 3, Belarus acceded to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional organization helmed by\u00a0China and Russia<\/a>,<\/strong> at its annual summit as a full member after\u00a0officially applying in September 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This move would increase the number of member states in the bloc to ten.<\/p>\n

As Statista’s Florian Zandt shows in the chart below<\/a>, expansion of the SCO has picked up over the past decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You will find more infographics at Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

While the number of member states stood at six from the founding of the SCO until 2017, the group admitted\u00a0India<\/a>\u00a0and Pakistan in 2017. However, India’s role in the SCO is questionable due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking closer ties to the West and a long-held animosity between India and Pakistan<\/strong>, according to\u00a0CNN reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Iran was awarded full membership in the SCO<\/strong> after becoming an observer in 2005 and launching an\u00a0unsuccessful membership bid in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The SCO’s predecessor, the so-called Shanghai Five, was founded in 1996. <\/strong>Back then it consisted of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. On June 15, 2001, Uzbekistan joined and the alliance was renamed SCO. According to\u00a0the official website of the group<\/a>, its aims are “strengthening mutual confidence and good-neighbourly relations among the member countries; promoting effective cooperation […]; making joint efforts to maintain and ensure peace, security and stability in the region”.<\/p>\n

The latter part, in particular, earned the SCO comparisons to\u00a0NATO<\/a>, although the SCO’s joint activities are not limited to security.<\/strong> It’s also different due to its member states are situated on one continent rather than spread across multiple geographic regions. As is often the case, SCO’s member countries are part of a variety of other organizations like the Economic Cooperation Organization, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or the Commonwealth of Independent States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/05\/2024 – 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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