Absorbing new member states needs a legal basis, yet the SCO has no rules concerning the issue. Therefore some western countries have no need to worry about whether India, Iran or other countries would become new members.

Zhang Deguang

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Energy cooperation is a key area of economic cooperation among SCO member states. The working group on energy issue will compose of experts in related areas from the six member states.

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— Zhang Deguang

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There's no basis to proceed, ... It should have never been an issue.

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We attach particular importance to the interaction between Pakistan, an observer country for now, and the SCO.

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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

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