The French magazine L'Obs saw that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has witnessed critical transformations in recent years after several countries joined it, which makes analysts wonder whether it will turn into an anti-Western organization in the future.

The organization will hold an important meeting on the 15th and 16th of this month in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The French magazine said that the organization aimed, at the beginning of its establishment, to frame cooperation between Central Asian countries, and to ensure its stability only a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and both Russia and China played an active role in this context.


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The magazine pointed out that this week's meeting can be described as a summit of the "rejection front" anti-Western, with Russian President Vladimir Putin participating in the height of the war on Ukraine, as well as Chinese President Xi Jinping, in light of the tensions with the West over Taiwan as well as the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The magazine said that with the expansion of the organization and its inclusion of major countries such as India and Pakistan, as well as Iran - which became a full member on September 17, 2021 - it has become an important "circle of influence" for the two major powers, China and Russia, during their confrontation with the Western alliance.

On the other hand, Lopes emphasized that this grouping cannot be compared to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), for example, as it is not united by a unified military doctrine, nor is it linked to strong and clear alliances, but rather the differences between some of its members are greater than that Covered like the deep differences between China and India.


On the other hand, the magazine stated that the assembly is trying to ensure common interests, noting that the most important challenge before the Samarkand meeting is determining the extent to which member states are able to make practical suggestions and concessions to ensure the achievement of common interests, and to overcome the many problems that separate them.

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"Loops" indicated that the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization may give a false image of the existence of a bipolar world divided between a West described as arrogant, and a bright one controlled by "dictatorship" regimes.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization "SCO" (SCO) was established on April 26, 1996 as a Eurasian regional bloc called the "Shanghai Five", which included China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.

On June 15, 2001, the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in its new form was officially announced after Uzbekistan joined the organization.


During the Astana Summit in July 2005, representatives of India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan participated as “observers”.

On June 9, 2017, India and Pakistan joined the organization as full members, Cambodia, Nepal and Sri Lanka received the status of dialogue partner, while Israel, Iraq, Maldives, Ukraine and Vietnam applied for membership.

In 2012, Turkey, a NATO member state, was granted dialogue partner status during the group's summit held in Beijing.