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"Moscow wants greater security role for Shanghai Organization"

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Published 15 May, 2009, 19:29

Russia wants the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to assume a greater security role, says Aleksandr Lukin, the Head of the SCO Research Centre at Moscow State University of International Relations.

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