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TASHKENT (TCA) — During their meeting in Beijing on April 25, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and China President Xi Jinping expressed shared interest in bringing the volume of China-Uzbekistan trade up to US $10 billion in the coming years, the press service of the Uzbek president reported.
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BEIJING (TCA) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says his plan to recreate the old Silk Road is designed to increase and enhance international trade cooperation, as he bid to reassure critics of the $1 trillion infrastructure project, RFE/RL reported.
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MOSCOW (TCA) — Officials from China, Russia and the United States on April 25 reached consensuses on various aspects of the Afghanistan issue including sovereignty, internal dialogue, terrorism, military withdrawals and smuggling, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — It is estimated that about half of the world’s obsolete pesticides can be found in the former Soviet Union, with many of them stored throughout Central Asia. As an important centre for agriculture, particularly cotton production, the region was a heavy user of pesticides. What remain are inappropriate burial sites, regulatory and management deficits, and other issues, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The launch ceremony of a new five-year project to develop the livestock sector in Uzbekistan took place on April 23. The project is jointly funded by the European Union (€15 million) and the World Bank ($150 million) and aims to address major problems in the livestock sector such as low productivity, insufficient value addition, limited access to finance and to market for smallholder farmers, poor coordination among various stakeholders and inefficient value chain management, lack of quality of animal health services, and meagre resources for research institutions, the Delegation of the European Union to Uzbekistan reported.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced a former lawmaker from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, Damirbek Asylbek-Uulu, to 10 years in prison on smuggling charges at a hearing that was interrupted by a fight between defendants, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
