TASHKENT (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on April 27 approved International Development Association credit in the amount of US $42.2 million for the Modernizing Higher Education Project in Uzbekistan.
ASTANA (TCA) — Domestic producers now meet 95 percent of the Kazakh population’s needs for basic food products, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported citing Deputy Agriculture Minister Gulmira Isayeva.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — On April 26 and 27, the World Bank Group, jointly with the Government of Turkmenistan, organized a high-level conference on Increasing Competitiveness.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek is hosting the 12th Central Asia Border Security Initiative (CABSI) Conference on April 27 and 28. The meeting results from the cooperation between the EU, the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior Border Management in Central Asia Programme (BOMCA) with the support of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union’s Delegation to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
Kyrgyzstan’s new parliament Speaker Chynybai Tursunbekov (photo from the parliament’s website)
BISHKEK (TCA) — The parliament in Kyrgyzstan elected Chynybai Tursunbekov of the pro-presidential Social Democratic Party as the parliament’s new speaker in the second round of a secret vote on April 27.
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov (official photo)
BISHKEK (TCA) — The new Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced new standards of his Cabinet’s work at the first meeting of his Government on April 25.
