Central Asia better protected with India and Pakistan membership to SCO

LONDON (TCA) — The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, also known as the Shanghai Six, is becoming Shanghai Eight with the now formalized entry of India and Pakistan. For Central Asia’s former Soviet republics, it means that their troublesome neighbor Afghanistan is now sealed from the south, and the two new SCO member states will have less excuses to stand by should the Afghan civil war spill over towards the north. Continue reading

Nazarbayev proposes deepening EEU economic relations with third countries

ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has proposed declaring 2016 the “year of deepening economic relations of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with third countries and key integration associations”. Continue reading