Medvedev calls for closer ties between Afghanistan, Shanghai alliance

Russia has called for closer relations between Afghanistan and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. “Russia is calling for more intensive and deeper cooperation between the SCO and Afghanistan,” Medvedev said at the alliance’s tenth jubilee summit in Astana. The leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan […]