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TASHKENT (TCA) — Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed bilateral cooperation in the Uzbek capital on the second day of Steinmeier’s three-day official visit to Central Asia’s most populous country, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Pressed for information about what relatives and activists say is a crackdown on indigenous, mostly Muslim ethnic groups in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang, the Chinese ambassador to Kazakhstan angrily denied any wrongdoing by Beijing, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Hosting Taliban delegates and Afghan politicians in an effort to promote itself as a peacemaker in Afghanistan, Russia has called for the complete withdrawal of international forces from the war-ravaged country, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Representatives of the European Union and the Kyrgyz Republic met on May 27 in Brussels to discuss human rights issues and cooperation in related areas during their annual Human Rights Dialogue, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has discussed military cooperation between Russia and Tajikistan with the Central Asian country’s President, Emomali Rahmon, and its defense minister, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The implementation of a project called SPRING by USAID between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in a 65% reduction of stunting rates in the Naryn oblast, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said.
