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To: TigerPaw who wrote (240122)	7/6/2005 1:35:15 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1575981

the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - which includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China, and Russia - issued a joint statement Well, who in the world is the SCO? Do they speak for their country's governments, and are those governments democratically elected? If not, this "statement" is about as relevant as Ted's posts on SI. What right has the SCO to speak for the people of China? I'll bet you a dollar the people of China didn't choose the SCO members.... "There should be no place for interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states," Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said. I have pointed out many time I don't agree with that basic premise. A sovereign nation living under an unelected, oppressive dictatorship should be continuously interefered with by outside nations, in my view, until the people of that nation are free to determine their own "manifest destiny". Of course the despot ruler doesn't think so, because freeing the people ususally includes killing him. "Correspondents say the statement appears to reflect increasing concerns that the US is encouraging the overthrow of Central Asia's authoritarian governments," reports BBC. Good for us.