Qingdao, June 26 -- Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in China's Qingdao, has warned of an increasingly deteriorating geopolitical situation globally.
"The current military-political situation in the world remains complex and tends to deteriorate. Geopolitical contradictions have intensified. The fundamental foundations of strategic stability are being destroyed. The potential for conflict has increased threateningly.
"Against this background, the role of international institutions designed to ensure global stability has fallen to an unacceptable level," Belousov said today, addressing heads of the SCO nations' defence ministries, the Straits Times reported.
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