BISHKEK (TCA) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Jin Liqun on April 13 signed the first co-financing framework agreement between the two institutions.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan has become the largest country in Europe and Central Asia in terms of attraction of investments from the World Bank which have now reached $6.8 billion, First Deputy Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Marat Kussainov said on April 13, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — The current deficit of tenge liquidity and lack of credit resources in the national currency was the subject of the Kazakh parliament’s address to Prime Minister Karim Masimov and National Bank Chairman Daniyar Akishev, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on April 13.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan on April 13 elected Sooronbai Jeenbekov the country’s new Prime Minister.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Uzbek President’s decree of April 12 has introduced the state order for the purchase of fresh fruit and vegetables, melons and watermelons, and grapes with the purpose to supply that agricultural produce to processing enterprises, saturate the domestic market, and increase exports, the press service of the President of Uzbekistan said.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Foreign investments will not be attracted into charter capitals of 93 cotton-processing factories in Uzbekistan, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported.
