BISHKEK (TCA) — The Shanghai Cooperation Organization now tends to shift its focus from security to regional economic issues, as it meets the interests and needs of the bloc’s member states in Central Asia and beyond. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Umida Hashimova, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security on June 18 detained the country’s former Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev on corruption charges.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The United Nations Country Team in Kyrgyzstan has made a decision to stop using single-use plastics at meetings and events supported by the United Nations. “We will work with hotels, service providers, and partners to urge them to follow our green policy. It is aimed at deepening environmental awareness about the major environmental challenges created by omnipresent global products, especially plastic bottles and plastic shopping bags,” the UN in Kyrgyzstan said.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A U.S. citizen who returned to visit relatives in Uzbekistan has been detained on suspicion of joining a terrorist group and fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan, authorities say, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghan peace activists have arrived in Kabul after trekking some 700 kilometers on foot calling for an end to Afghanistan’s nearly 17-year war, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Moscow police say a taxi driver whose car plowed into pedestrians and injured soccer fans near Red Square on June 16 reported that he fell asleep and confused his brake and gas pedals, RFE/RL reported.
