MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia ended a decades-old border dispute with China on Tuesday by giving it a stretch of river island territory in a ceremony symbolising the Cold War rivals’ warming ties.
Chinese and Russian flags were raised and new border markers erected as part of the handover at China’s far northeastern tip near the Russian city of Khabarovsk, Interfax news agency reported.
Posts Tagged ‘SCO’
Russia gives territory to China, ending border dispute
Posted by seumasach on October 17, 2008
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The SCO’s Rising Power
Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2008
Alexander Lukin
2nd September, 2008
One of most discussed aspects of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Dushanbe over the weekend was the third point of the summit declaration devoted to the situation in South Ossetia. Although member nations expressed “deep concern” over the tensions surrounding this issue, they also pledged to “support Russia’s active role in facilitating peace and cooperation in the region.”
Immediately following the signing of that declaration, the Western media began an intense and deliberate disinformation campaign to try to depict the position of SCO countries as not supporting Russia’s policy toward Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Support for Russia at SCO Summit
Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2008
Vladimir Radyuhin
29th August, 2008
United stand: (From left) Presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan), Hu Jintao (China), Kurmanbek Bakiyev (Kyrgyzstan), Emomali Rakhmon (Tajikistan), Dmitry Medvedev (Russia) and Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan) in Dushanbe on Thursday.
MOSCOW: Russia has won crucial support for its peace efforts in South Ossetia from China and other allies in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
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Russia remains a Black Sea power
Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2008
“The Montreal Convention assures the free passage of Russian warships through the Straits of Bosphorous. Under the circumstances, NATO’s grandiose schemes to occupy the Black Sea as its private lake seem outlandish now. There must be a lot of egg on the faces of the NATO brains in Brussels and their patrons in Washington and London.”
The reason being , as we have been at pains to point out, that the whole Georgia operation, from the US point of view, was concerned, not with the realities of geopolitics but with saving the knecks of Cheney and co. It may seem remarkable that thousands of lives were sacrificed, a key US ally was humiliated and all foreign policy rationality abandoned just to save a few war criminals from the dock, but such is the reality of politics at the end of empire.
M K Bhadrakumar
30th August, 2008
If the struggle in the Caucasus was ever over oil and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) agenda towards Central Asia, the United States suffered a colossal setback this week. Kazakhstan, the Caspian energy powerhouse and a key Central Asian player, has decided to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Russia over the conflict with Georgia, and Russia’s de facto control over two major Black Sea ports has been consolidated.
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Militarism and a Uni-polar World
Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2008
by Lenora Foerstel
Global Research, August 26, 2008
The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller as an off-shoot of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). David Rockefeller was chairman of the CFR in 1970 and subsequently became the founding chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Soon the membership of the Commission had grown to 300 members, including prominent political figures like Zbigniew Brzezinski. Most members of the Trilateral Commission are bankers, media moguls, or corporate CEOs, primarily from North America, Europe and Japan, while all members of the CFR are U.S. Citizens. Read the rest of this entry »
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SCO supports Russia’s role in S. Ossetia
Posted by smeddum on August 28, 2008
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Russia joins the war in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on June 26, 2008
The minutea of the diplomatic manouvering outlined below are well worth following: at some point, these processes will crystalise in a shift away from NATO influence and towards a greater role for regional powers in stabilising the Afghan situation.
By M K Bhadrakumar (Asia Times)
Moscow is staging an extraordinary comeback on the Afghan chessboard after a gap of two decades following the Soviet Union’s nine-year adventure that ended in the withdrawal of its last troops from Afghanistan 1989. In a curious reversal of history, this is possible only with the acquiescence of the United States. Moscow is taking advantage of the deterioration of the war in Afghanistan and the implications for regional security could be far-reaching.
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