Likhachev spoke about the development of technology platforms in the SCO despite Western pressure

Western countries, trying to squeeze the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) out of the market, are pushing these states to create their own technology platforms. Alexey Likhachev, head of the Rosatom State Corporation, told Izvestia correspondent Nikolai Ivanov about this on September 1.

He stressed that the SCO countries understand that regardless of certain political problems, the sanctions pressure mechanism will be used solely as an opportunity for unfair competition.

"The main task of [the West]: Squeeze representatives of the East and the Global South out of the market and economic operations as harshly as possible. This means that this action generates counteraction, and they force us to move faster in terms of creating our own technological platforms. And in this sense, we are practically exporting technological sovereignty through modernization, both in nuclear and non—nuclear technologies," Likhachev said.

According to him, the consolidation of countries around the SCO makes it possible to systematically develop cooperation both in the nuclear field and in the non-energy application of nuclear technologies, including science and nuclear medicine, and new opportunities for expanding cooperation are emerging.

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