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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan is considering cancellation of the registration demanded of foreign visitors for a stay of no more than 30 days in the Central Asian country, according to a proposed presidential decree open for public comment on December 10, Xinhua news agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Cooperation Council between the European Union (EU) and Kyrgyzstan held its seventeenth meeting on December 9 in Brussels. The meeting was chaired by Gordan Grlić Radman, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, on behalf of Josep Borrell Fontelles, the new EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The delegation of Kyrgyzstan was led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Chyngyz Aidarbekov.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — During his working trip to the United States, Kazakhstan Prime Minister Askar Mamin on December 9 met with the Governor of Nebraska Pete Ricketts and the President of Valmont Industries, the market leader in irrigation systems, Stephen Kaniewski.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., the beef and pork subsidiary of US’s Tyson Foods, Inc., on December 9 signed an agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan and private holding company Kusto Group to collaborate on a project that in its initial phase could lead to the construction of a modern beef processing plant in Kazakhstan with an anticipated harvest capacity of 2,000 head per day. The investment is projected to help provide an annual agricultural economic benefit to the country well in excess of one billion US dollars, Tyson Foods said in a press release.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The head of the government of China’s Xinjiang, at a press conference in Beijing on December 9, said the region is determined in counter-terrorism, deradicalization and maintaining development, Xinhua news agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A psychiatric examination has been ordered for Kyrgyzstan’s arrested former President Almazbek Atambayev, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported citing the country’s Interior Ministry.
