German Chancellor Olaf Scholz despises the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and is “exasperated” by the fact that Turkey, a NATO ally, is trying to join.
“This is not an organization that makes a major contribution to the goal of promoting good global coexistence,” Scholz told the media after meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. (September 21, 2022).
He added: “So I’m bothered by this (Turkey’s move). But ultimately it’s important to reach a consensus to make sure the Russia-Ukraine war doesn’t work.”
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Erdogan, who last week attended the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization led by China and Russia as the head of a “dialogue partner”, said Turkey would ask to formally join the organization.
Turkey is a NATO member dominated by the US and Western countries, but the leaders of China and Russia have made it clear that they want the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to be an important force against the Western world.
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Last week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the historic Uzbek city of Samarkand on his first overseas trip in nearly three years, during which he tried to push for an initiative. of global security “aimed at countering the West”.
The SCO Iran observer announced at the end of the summit that he had formally signed an agreement to join the organization and called on the organization’s member states to help Iran evade Western sanctions.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was founded in 2001 and its founding members are China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, but the agenda is largely controlled by China and Russia. In 2017, the organization accepted India and Pakistan as members.
With the entry of Iran, the SCO will have nine member states, with a total population of 40% of the world total and 30% of the world GDP, and is currently the largest regional organization in the world.
Other countries with observer status are Afghanistan, Belarus and Mongolia. In addition, the SCO has six “dialogue partners”, which are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
Belarus is believed to be close to formal signing of accession documents and that Qatar and Saudi Arabia could also join the group.
But observers say some of the Central Asian countries that co-founded the SCO and India and Pakistan don’t want to position the organization as an anti-Western bloc.
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