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上海合作组织成员国元首理事会第二十二次会议即将在乌兹别克斯坦撒马尔罕举行。    Dozens of businesses, government offices, vehicles, and at least three police stations went up in flames in Freetown, Makeni, Kamakwie, and other cities across Sierra Leone from August 10 through 12, with over 113 people arrested and police introducing an emergency nationwide curfew and deploying tear gas and live ammunition to disperse crowds.,The curfew was lifted on August 13, with banks, businesses, government offices, and most stores reopened and communal services beginning to clear the damage. However, ramped-up security measures, including federal troop deployments to assist police, have been left in place.,What Happened?,Sierra Leone is one of the poorest nations in the world, ranking 186 out of 198 in a recent GDP purchasing power parity ranking. An estimated 80 percent of the population lives in poverty, many of them in the country’s rural areas. Like other nations in Africa, the country has faced special difficulties amid the global economic calamity brought on by COVID, and exacerbated by Western restrictions on Russian exports of agricultural goods and fertilizers amid the security crisis in Ukraine, which has caused a major jump in food prices.,AfricaAnti-Russia Sanctions Left Africa Without Access to Grain and Fertilisers, African Union Chief Says3 June, 11:13 GMT,As a net importer of both energy and food, Sierra Leone is especially vulnerable to global economic conditions, and along with food and fertilizers, fuel and electricity costs have also soared. Food prices alone have jumped by over 40 percent over the past few months, with a bag of rice once costing 350 leones now going for over 500. The country’s Central Bank recently removed three zeros from the national currency in a bid to restore confidence. The country has also been overcome by weeks of strikes by government workers, including doctors and teachers, and by small traders protesting poor conditions.,Coup Plot?,However, President Julius Maada Bio has also accused protesters of having ulterior motives beyond the cost of living crisis.,“This was not a protest against the high cost of living occasioned by the ongoing global economic crisis. The chant of the insurrectionists was for a violent overthrow of the democratically-elected government,” Bio said in an address on August 12 after returning to the country from a holiday in London.,Local media pointed to the chants of “Bio must go” among protesters as they gathered in the capital, and the president accused some of the demonstrators of consisting of “APC Warriors,” a reference to the opposition All People’s Congress party, which governed the country from 2007 until 2018, when Bio’s Sierra Leone People’s Party won national elections.,No doubt mindful of the violent civil war which shook the country between 1991 and 2002, claiming as many as 70,000 lives and displacing over 2.5 million people, Bio vowed that “in the coming weeks and months, [the] government will undertake necessary security actions meant to guarantee the peace and security of all citizens.”,“The security forces will, and must, act with great restraint and within their professional codes of service. But be assured that my government will crack down hard on violent insurrectionists, their collaborators, their sponsors and their supporters. My government will relentlessly fight those who would rather use terror and gruesome violence to achieve political goals,” the president said.,As a government, we will continue our engagement with Civil Society as we strive to promote sustainable peace, national cohesion and socio-economic development in Sierra Leone. #newdirectionagenda— President Julius Maada Bio (@PresidentBio) August 18, 2022,Bio did not elaborate on who these “sponsors” and “supporters” were, or whether they included any foreign actors.,Geopolitical Context,Like other African nations, Sierra Leone recently rejected calls by Washington and Brussels to show solidarity with the West and Ukraine and impose sanctions on Russia. But even before the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, relations between Freetown and Washington were tense at times. Last year, US President Joe Biden snubbed Bio by refusing to invite the African leader to the US’ so-called “Democracy Summit.” No reasons were given. However, neighboring Liberia, which faced mass civil unrest of its own between 2019 and 2020, and whose officials have been sanctioned by the US over suspected corruption, did get an invite.,While Sierra Leone maintains economic and political ties with its former British colonial masters, and remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Freetown has sought to expand its partnerships with other geopolitical power centers, including Russia and China. President Bio attended the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019, where he discussed ways to strengthen economic cooperation between the distant nations. In February 2021, Freetown signed onto Moscow’s efforts to prevent the deployment of weapons in outer space. In May 2021, Bio spoke by phone to President Xi Jinping of China, where they discussed the friendly, “brotherly” relations between the two nations, as well Chinese assistance to Freetown in measures against COVID, and agricultural and economic development.,In this context, the reactions of major foreign powers to this month’s unrest have been telling. While the United States, Britain, and the European Union collectively expressed “grave concern” over the “disturbing reports of violence” and urged the parties to “stay calm, promote accountability and ensure respect for human rights,” China’s Embassy smoothed over the protests altogether, refraining from wagging its finger at Freetown and instead trumpeting the expanding cooperation between the two countries.,We are gravely concerned by reports of violence surrounding today’s demonstrations in Sierra Leone. We urge all parties to stay calm, promote accountability, and ensure respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.— Bureau of African Affairs (@AsstSecStateAF) August 10, 2022,Similarly, while UK High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney lectured President Bio about how “violence has no place in a democracy and the necessary investigation into August 10 can sit alongside de-escalation,” the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Guinea, which concurrently serves as the Embassy in Sierra Leone, only presented a bare bones report on the situation in the country, Bio’s meetings with community and tribal leaders, and indicated that an internal “debriefing” was being created “regarding the causes, course and consequences of the riots on August 10.”。伊朗知名学者、德黑兰大学亚洲研究中心主任哈米德·瓦法埃在接受中央广播电视总台记者专访时表示，上合组织是重要的新型区域组织，它将为地区乃至全球发展作出巨大贡献。总台记者 李健南：上合组织建立之初，不少西方媒体看衰它的前景，认为很快就会从国际舞台上消失。但是现在，上合组织正在不断地发展壮大，为什么越来越多的国家，包括伊朗想加入上合组织，您认为上合组织的吸引力是什么？德黑兰大学亚洲研究中心主任 哈米德·瓦法埃：这个问题很重要，在上合组织成立之初，一些西方国家并不看好，但随着时间的推移以及国际形势的变化和发展，现在我们看到上海合作组织的影响力越来越大，也有越来越多的成员加入。西方国家看衰上合组织是由于西方媒体和西方政府的陈旧观念，这些观念主要是在冷战环境下以及单边主义国际体系下产生的。如今的国际环境发生了很大变化，我们正在目睹国际体系的多极化，在多极化的世界里为不同国家提供合作条件的组织变得很重要，也更具吸引力。因此，伊朗、巴基斯坦、土耳其、沙特等地区大国都想加入上合组织。世界正在走向多极化和多边合作，这也是上合组织的吸引力所在。总台记者 李健南：伊朗总统莱希近日表示，伊朗非常重视与上合组织成员国之间的合作，因为这可以将伊朗与亚洲的经济基础设施联系起来，您认为莱希总统具体指的是哪些经济领域？另外，除了地区的经贸合作外，伊朗还期待在上合框架下在哪些方面深化合作？德黑兰大学亚洲研究中心主任 哈米德·瓦法埃：新合作领域将包括经济安全、能源安全、金融交易安全等，这些是新的安全领域范畴，这些领域受到一些西方国家，特别是美国的威胁。在我看来，除了经济合作外，安全领域会是一个很好的合作领域，也应该受到上合组织成员国的关注，伊朗也有能力将这项工作做好。

B | 总台记者 李健南：虽然上合组织成员国“结伴不结盟”，但是西方恶意揣测上合组织是所谓的“东方北约”，您是如何看待这一观点？德黑兰大学亚洲研究中心主任 哈米德·瓦法埃：上合组织同北约有着本质区别。北约是一个军事组织，上合是经济和安全领域的合作组织，并没有像北约那样有军事层面的计划。北约的存在具有破坏性，他们在阿富汗等国家制造杀戮，当北约的飞机从阿富汗撤离起飞时，一些人从飞机上掉了下来，所有人都目睹了北约的失败。

C | 地区国家需要的是合作和参与，而不是军事分裂力量。我们研究上合组织文件就会发现，它描述的是“上海精神”，正是平等合作与共同发展，上合组织成员国不需要占领他国，也不需要攻击任何人，这种通过合作的发展是可行的。上合组织不同于西方一家独大的合作方式，而是各国坐在一起平等协商的东方合作模式。总台记者 李健南：您曾经说过，世界上没有任何一种作为标尺的民主模式，每一个国家的人民都应该找到自己的民主模式和发展道路，而且您认为中国人民已经找到了适合自己的道路，作为伊朗知名的亚洲问题研究学者，您认为中国的经验对亚洲的其他国家，以及上合国家有什么样的借鉴意义？德黑兰大学亚洲研究中心主任 哈米德·瓦法埃：每个国家都应该找到自己独特的治理模式。把西方模式强加给东方国家，甚至把一国模式强加给其他国家都是错误的。每个国家都应基于自身的国情、目标、民族特点等设立自己的目标。而正如我们看到的那样，中国已经找到了有效的模式实现了发展，这个模式值得学习。很多国家都在研究中国模式，它对于许多东方国家找到适合自己国情的道路，并以此为基础规划本国的经济发展有着重要的借鉴意义。总台记者 李健南：中国国家主席习近平在去年9月21日的联大一般性辩论中提出了全球发展倡议，另外，在今年4月21日的博鳌论坛开幕式上发出全球安全倡议。请问您如何理解这两个全球倡议，您认为这两个倡议对上合组织理念有什么样的发展和推动作用？德黑兰大学亚洲研究中心主任 哈米德·瓦法埃：波斯文学中有一首诗歌说，“人类是一个整体的成员”。意思是所有人、所有国家就像是一个整体的不同组成部分，这首诗歌还提到，“如果一个肢体遭受痛苦，其他部位也会感到不适”。这正是习近平主席提出的两个倡议所蕴含的道理，人类的安全与发展应该被视为一个整体。在当今国际背景下，上合组织给了我们很多机会加强双边和多边交流、集体协作，这正契合习近平主席提出的全球安全与全球发展倡议，需要我们共同携手，加强合作。

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