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Shanghai Cooperation Organization does not intend to become NATO analogue, despite expansion by India and Pakistan.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 20. /TASS/. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) does not intend to become an analogue of NATO, despite the forthcoming inclusion of new members, in particular, de facto nuclear India and Pakistan, Head of Russia’s Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov said Saturday. "As for the SCO, as the Russian president talked about this, a very important procedure will be started - the beginning of inclusion of two such large countries as India and Pakistan," he said. "Both of them are nuclear, Although SCO is not NATO, I would like to emphasize, and is not going to become NATO," he added. "The SCO is primarily the regional economic organization. Now it is regional taking into account China and India. That is quite the region," Ivanov added. "Essentially, it is a global organization, of course," he said. Ivanov believes that "the world really needs a new modern polycentric architecture." "BRICS is actively discussing it," he said, "not only when getting together." He reminded that for the 3 consecutive years BRICS countries leaders gather before the G20 summit. "The BRICS five gathers and discusses what it will do in the framework of the summit of the "twenty"," he said. At the same time, Ivanov did not agree with the assumption that the world is on the threshold of a new Yalta conference, which established the post-war world order. "Yalta-2 cannot be done, if it is not what our Western partners really want," he said. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization brings together Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan have observer status, while Belarus, Turkey and Sri Lanka are "dialogue partners." Read more

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