Given China’s importance in both military and economic matters, growing energy and trade relations between Central Asia and the West, and the reasonable assumption that Central Asia’s security will continue to have great significance for Western security, cooperation between the SCO, the EU, and NATO looks inevitable.
Die EU hat das Geld und die SOZ, deren Mitgliedsländer in der Mehrzahl an Afghanistan grenzen, verfügt über ausgebildetes Personal und direkte Erfahrungen in der Region.