When questioned if Mongolia will join Shanghai Cooperation
Organization during its regular summit in China next month, Gombojav Tserenpil,
who served as foreign minister between 1988-1996 said there is no need for
that.
Former Minister said new type of “Cold war” has began today
and world has become polarized and many hot spots has emerged, trade wars
expanded its scope and emphasized Mongolia needs to pursue non-alignment and
multi-pillar policy based on current key foreign relations documents.
He understands SCO as a coalition that opposes US
domination, however, India and Pakistan joining SCO made the SCO more confusing.
He said four out of eight members of SCO has nuclear weapons and four are
Muslim countries which have common problems of terrorism, extremism,
separatism.
He put forward question “ what will Mongolia gain by joining
SCO?”.
-We must be able to answer this question. Will our security
improve? Will our international
reputation increase? Will there be new
development source?
However, former Minister said he himself can’t give positive
answers to this question. Mongolia has political and bilateral cooperation
agreement with all members of the SCO. These agreements contain clauses on
jointly fighting against human trafficking, terrorism and narcotic
transportation.
Therefore, it is not really necessary for Mongolia to join the
SCO as it is possible for Mongolia to cooperate with SCO as observer. Not
joining SCO is not about distrusting or isolating from our two immediate
neighbors as this is proven by scope of our current cooperation.
In nutshell, Mongolia should not abandon its third neighbor policy
and should not take sides in polarized world, according to former foreign
Minister.
Source:itoim.mn (Mongolian news portal)
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