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Russia – Kazakhstan – CSTO: 2024 Security and Trade Relations – Update & Analysis

Commonwealth of Independent States, Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has been in Astana, Kazakhstan, meeting with the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and the Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu. Following these meetings, Lavrov held a press conference during which he discussed several issues relating to a planned visit by President Putin to attend the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), as […]

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BRICS, Russia and Iran: 2024 Developments and Implications 

BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Vladimir Putin has met with Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “This visit to Russia is your first as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this has great symbolic importance. Iran has become a full participant of BRICS, and

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Calls For Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Independent Payments Mechanism: Implications For BRICS, SWIFT, US Dollar, Euro and British Pound

BRICS, Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Readers will be familiar with discussions amongst the BRICS countries to establish a SWIFT alternative payments and settlements platform, however the concept is now spreading. Russia is calling for the removal of obstacles to the implementation of plans to increase the share of national currencies in mutual settlements between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries

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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Prime Ministers Council Meeting Begins In Pakistan 

China, India, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

The Meeting of Council of Prime Ministers of SCO Member States has begun in Pakistan, with Russia represented by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The SCO includes full members Belarus, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.  Dialogue partners include Afghanistan and Mongolia, while Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia,  Egypt, Kuwait, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal,

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Russia – Pakistan Port Traffic Volumes Double

Imports, Logistics & Transport, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Russia’s Minister of Transport, Roman Starovoit, and the Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk have met with the Pakistani Minister of Privatisation, Communications and Affairs of the Investment Council, Abdul Alim Khan, where the parties discussed issues of transport and logistics cooperation. During 2023, the volume of traffic between Russia and Pakistan doubled, and in the

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Russia – Iran Bilateral 2024 Relations: Update 

Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Russia’s Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref in Tehran on September 30 (Monday), with the discussions coming as fears grow of a Middle-East war.  However, the talks, at least officially, focused on bilateral cooperation between the two nations, the expansion and diversification of trade, as

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Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan Discuss Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction 

China, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Afghanistan is an observer country. Afghan representatives did not attend the meeting having been denied US Visas because some members of the government are on

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Russia To Assist Pakistan With Agricultural Productivity & Industrial Investments

BRICS, Investment, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Aleksei Gruzdev, has been visiting Islamabad and holding meetings with his counterpart, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Pakistan’s Minister for Industries, Production, and National Food Security. The two officials discussed enhancing bilateral trade, with a focus on improving agricultural outputs. As a result, Russia has agreed to supply the latest

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Russia – Gulf Cooperation Council Trade & Relations: Update

BRICS, Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial conference. He will attend a ministerial meeting of the Russia-GCC Strategic Dialogue and will have several additional bilateral meetings. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional free trade organization comprising Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and

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Russia, Mongolia Agree To Modernise Ulaan Baatar’s Soviet-Era Coal Power Station

Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Investment, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Talks are also underway about building a small nuclear power plant and new Kharkhorum city  During Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mongolia, the two countries have agreed on a project to modernize the No. 3 Combined Heat and Power Plant in Ulaanbaatar. An intergovernmental agreement was signed on front end engineering design for Ulaanbaatar

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