Russia regards the July events in Karakalpakstan autonomy of Uzbekistan and the January events in Kazakhstan as ongoing attempts by the West to promote democracy through “color revolutions,” Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said at a meeting of the secretaries of security councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states on Friday, TASS reported.
“Color revolutions are still the main tool for promoting the so-called American-style democracy, attempts by Westerners to provoke them in our countries are observed on a regular basis. This is how, for example, we assess the events that took place in 2020 in Belarus, in January 2022 in Kazakhstan and in July in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan,” he said.
According to him, "against this background, the joint efforts of the SCO member states to strengthen security based on the principle of its indivisibility, promote equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the interests of the well-being and prosperity of our countries are more than ever needed."
The secretaries of the Security Councils of the SCO countries in Tashkent discussed the joint terrorism and extremism, drug and arms trafficking and crimes using IT.
Earlier, Nikolai Patrushev, at a meeting with the Secretary of the Security Council of Uzbekistan, stated that Russia was concerned about "the desire of Western countries, and primarily the United States, to create hotbeds of tension in the CIS."
