Indian PM, Narendra #Modi at the #ShanghaiCooperation Organisation virtual forum attended by the Chinese president, Xi #Jinping, Russian president, Vladimir #Putin, Iranian president, Ibrahim #Raisi, Pakistani PM, Shehbaz #Sharif, Kazakh president, Kassym-Jomart #Tokayev and other SCO leaders:

“Afghan soil should not be used to destabilise our neighbourhood (…) the SCO should work for welfare of Afghan people and provide humanitarian aid”.

“extremely happy to see Iran joining the SCO as a new member today”.

“We do not see the #SCO as an extended neighbourhood, but rather as an extended family. Security, economic development, connectivity, unity, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity and environmental protection are the pillars of our vision for the SCO”.

“The SCO must not hesitate to criticise countries that support #terrorism (…) terrorist has become a threat to regional and global #peace. There is a need for decisive action now”.
#Iran #India #China #Russia #Kazakistam #Afghanistan #Pakistan #Economy #Politics
🔗 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/sco-summit-live-updates-july-4/liveblog/101473995.cms

There is a real popular #uprising in #Kazakhstan now, and from the very beginning the protests were of a social and class nature, since the doubling of the cost of liquefied gas on the stock exchange was only the last drop in the overflowing cup of patience. After all, the performances began just the same in #Zhanaozen on the initiative of oil workers, which became a kind of political headquarters of the entire #protest movement.
And the dynamics of this movement is indicative, since it began as a social protest, then it began to expand, and labor collectives used rallies to put up their demands for a 100% increase in wages, cancellation of optimization results, improvement of working conditions and freedom of trade #union activity. As a result, on January 3, the entire Mangystau region was engulfed in a general #strike, which spread to the neighboring #Atyrau region.

http://socialismkz.info/?p=26810 #repression #tokayev