Database of publications / IRAN AND THE SCO: A MATCH MADE IN DUSHANBE OR IN MOSCOW? (By Stephen Blank, 03/04/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst).

Speaking in Dushanbe on March 24, Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki announced that Iran had formally applied for membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The occasion for this announcement was interesting because it was made in Dushanbe, not in Teheran.

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