Security for Greater Eurasia

... principle of indivisible Eurasian security, which implies mutual understanding and taking confidence-building measures. This approach should form the basis of the strategic goal of forming a security belt around the SCO perimeter.” While political discourse in the West sees the main value of cooperative security in ensuring human security, the SCO demonstrates the possibility of an alternative, but no less important value—cultural and civilizational diversity. The 2005 Astana Declaration of the SCO stipulates that “the world's diversity ...