Antić for the South China Morning Post: "Western concerns about SCO must be allayed. Kazakhstan can help"

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held its annual summit on July 4 in Astana, the capital of this year’s chair Kazakhstan. The increasing influence of the SCO – whose members represent more than 3 billion people, or about 40 per cent of the world’s population – should be noted by the global community given the membership of major powers such as China and Russia as well as influential middle powers such as India, Iran and Kazakhstan.

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