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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan will send a government delegation for talks with the Taliban in Qatar, in a potential breakthrough in efforts to end the nearly 18-year war, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan plans to invest 12.1 billion U.S. dollars to develop the country’s aging chemical industry over a period of ten years and sell off state shares in a number of chemical enterprises, Xinhua news agency reported with reference to the Uzbek president’s decree published last week.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture has prepared road maps that will allow Kazakhstan enterprises to enter foreign markets with a wider range of products, Deputy Agriculture Minister Gulmira Issayeva told a press conference last week, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Construction of a slaughterhouse has begun in Alashankou in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making the inland port the region’s first to import live cattle directly from Kazakhstan, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — Central Asian economies excluding Kazakhstan are heavily dependent on labor migrant transfers. Migrants from Uzbekistan are leading in terms of remittances. In 2018, of $9.5 billion transferred by individuals from Russia, the most money was sent to Uzbekistan.
Paul Goble
BISHKEK (TCA) — Until recently, China’s expansion in Central Asia has been limited to the economic and cultural spheres, but now Beijing is likely to shift to establishing a military presence in the region. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by Paul Goble:
