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Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) do not rule out an opportunity to create a regional free trade area, Kazinform reported quoting Kazakh Vice Foreign Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev.

The Untied States said it would use all means to prevent Iran's influence in the region including its membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Perhaps more than any other capital in the world, Beijing has closely observed the change of the guard in the Kremlin. There are many reasons for Beijing's concerns: Russia's revival as a major power, its petro-politics approach to foreign relations, managing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), not to mention the stability of the 4,300-kilometer Sino-Russian border.

As U.S. unilateralism has asserted its role as the sole global superpower, the rest of the world is exploring a variety of ways of pushing back. One is the creation of several new regional security consortiums which are independent of the U.S.

This November is remarkable for abundance of formal events and occasions of multilateral and bilateral character that were held in the framework or under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). In his exclusive interview to a Kazinform correspondent < b>SCO Secretary General Bolat Nurgaliyev told about one of these events, namely the session of the SCO prime ministerial council in Tashkent.

“Regional cooperation is a key to help meet the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and promoting growth and equality,” said Malik while introducing the results and achievements of the inception meeting of the Silk Road Regional Programme (SRRP), which took place from 15-17 February in Beijing.

President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO's "muscle-flexing" and said that Russian nuclear forces would be ready with an adequate response to any aggressor. Putin, speaking to generals less than two weeks before Dec. 2 parliamentary elections, said the NATO military alliance had built up its forces close to Russia's borders.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that his country will respond to a U.S. plan to deploy anti-missile components in central Europe if its interests are ignored.

Bethesda, Maryland — The World Future Society, www.wfs.org , has released a 10 page report forecasting more than 70 major global developments for the coming year and beyond. The OUTLOOK 2008 report examines key trends in technology, the environment, the economy, international relations, etc., in order to paint a full and credible portrait of our likely future: Among the most significant findings:

Even as Russo-American tensions smolder from Eastern Europe and Central Asia to the Arctic seabed, the secretary of state is denying the onset of a renewed Cold War. Yet, unmistakable signals of a counter-balancing effort by Russia and China were sent last month through the largest-ever war games of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (S.C.O.), a six-nation anti-United States alliance.