Abstract
Presently the most significant issues of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) include questions of its further extension, new country-members of SCO team, and what state could be full members of this organization. The issues of SCO extension is actual from 2004-2005 when Mongolia, Pakistan, India and Iran became as observers in SCO. This paper tries to do analysis on countries-observers due to strengthening of these processes when different states, particularly such antagonistic as India and Pakistan, consider their preferences to have partnership with SCO and why SCO accepts these countries. This article is focused on SCO observers’ interests and significance of these countries for SCO itself. Chinese and Russian politics on the new country-observers is also considered in the paper. It is argued that SCO extension perspectives are controversial and they demonstrate that SCO is not ready to increase this organization by including Mongolia, Pakistan, India and Iran to SCO at the present times. Preliminary conclusions are that SCO will not extend in the future and issues of SCO enlargement will not be resolved in upcoming years.
Highlights
According to Charter’s article 13, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an international organization which is open to countries interested in partnership and have respect to purposes and principles of the SCO Charter and other SCO international agreements
It is argued that SCO extension perspectives are controversial and they demonstrate that SCO is not ready to increase this organization by including Mongolia, Pakistan, India and Iran to SCO at the present times
Analyzing the present issues of the SCO extension it could be stated that enlargement of the SCO with Iran, India, Pakistan, and Mongolia is precarious in perspective
Summary
According to Charter’s article 13, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an international organization which is open to countries interested in partnership and have respect to purposes and principles of the SCO Charter and other SCO international agreements. Decisions on acceptance of new members to SCO are made by Council of States’ Heads due to presentation of Council of International Affairs Ministries on official appeal of an interested state (The Regulations on Observer Status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 2011). Considering security issues and international responsibilities of country-observers they have to be alongside with international agreements and other SCO documents. Beside this Regulation, a country-applicant must not be in military conflict with other state or states. The model Memorandum on new SCO members was approved in Astana in June of 2011 demonstrated that organization became stable legally and procedurally and it is officially ready to further enlargement. In spite of Memorandum acceptance and transparent mechanism of perspective SCO members admission, it is stated that there many controversial issues are not resolved in the organization at the present period
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