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No less importantly, an alliance within the updated SCO frame of major energy, agricul-
tural, and hi-tech industrial producers, would provide a background for the formation of
a vast domestic market and diverse production chains, ranging from raw materials to fin-
ished goods.
Russia has declared its main priorities for its SCO presidency, one of them being admission
of new members. Now Russia will have to persuade its partners that the benefits of pivotal
regional countries' membership spectacularly outweigh the organizational and technical
costs of readjusting the SCO routine in new conditions. We can thus assume that the Or-
ganization is on the threshold of landmark decisions that would determine its foreseeable
future.