**PUTIN CALLS FOR ELIMINATING PROVOCATION OF ARMED CONFLICTS FROM GLOBAL PRACTICE**

**The head of state is participating in a meeting** of the heads of state of the **Shanghai Cooperation Organization.**

The President **stated that everything possible must be done to ensure that provoking wars **and armed conflicts no longer becomes a tool of international politics.

Putin also reminded that on **September 1, 1939, World War II began.**

Furthermore, the **President noted that the SCO is today effectively the largest regional association in the world**, home to half of the planet's population.

**Russia's trade turnover with SCO countries has exceeded $400 billion, **with 98% conducted in national currencies.

**Strengthening trade among SCO countries** is one of the organization's primary objectives.

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