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100			_aWu, Junfel
245			_aWill SCO become another Warsaw pact?
260			_c2005
300			_ap.4205-207
362			_a24 Sep
520			_aIt is fair to say that the Shanghai Cooperative Organisation is not an aggressive alliance against the US and will not become one in the near future either. Nevertheless, the renewed call of the Russian foreign ministry on July 15 that foreign troops in central Asia must leave as the situation in Afghanistan had stabilised, should be interpreted as the SCO's worry about US encroachment in central Asia in the name of anti-terrorism. The US has also begun to feel uneasy about SCO's power in neutralising its ambition to "Americanise" central Asia. - Reproduced.
650			_aInternational relations
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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