MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - The future of American military bases in Central Asia will depend on Russian-Chinese cooperation, a newspaper said on Thursday.

The Noviye Izvestia daily said if Russia and China's positions coincided, American forces could leave Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in the near future.

The change of the geopolitical situation in Central Asia also depended on the transformation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization into an influential international organization capable of controlling the situation in the region (the organization consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan).

Russia, which is seeking to support neighbor countries against "velvet" revolutions, gains from the situation, which is why Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Tajikistan have gathered around Russia.

On the request of Uzbekistan, the timeframe for American bases in Central Asia was included in an SCO declaration adopted Tuesday. Given that the active phase of the operation in Afghanistan is over, the SCO leaders said that its participants should think about withdrawing their military contingents from neighboring countries, the newspaper wrote.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday that the American presence in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan was advantageous for both parties.

John Ordway, the U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan, told a Kazakh news conference that continuing instability in Afghanistan dictated the need to maintain military bases in Central Asia. He said U.S. bases were only there to support military operations.