BISHKEK (TCA) — As part of the Multi-year Joint Capacity Development Program on Disaster Management (MJCD Program) which was started in 2012 by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Government of Kyrgyzstan and both KOICA and JICA will hold a Joint Seminar on Disaster Management on March 16 and 17 in Bishkek.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has dismissed the claim of private Turkish company Içkale Inşaat Limited against Turkmenistan for the amount of USD 537 million and EUR 26.7 million.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Kyrgyz Government’s tasks include increasing production and exports and import substitution of agricultural products, Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Temir Sariyev said on March 14 while reporting on the fulfillment of the Government’s Anti-crisis plan at the meeting of the Parliament’s majority coalition, the governmental press service said.
ASTANA (TCA) — The World Bank and the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of Kazakhstan on March 14 officially launched the Kazakhstan Skills and Jobs Project aimed at improving employment outcomes and skills of those in need of training.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Weather forecasters predict a dry summer in Kyrgyzstan. Due to the unusually warm winter and early spring this year, field works will start before the planned time. The Government reported that there will be no risks for the harvest in 2016 because there is enough water in reservoirs and “everything is under control”.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will extend the list of products they deliver to each other with the purpose to increase bilateral trade, Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev said during the 15th meeting of the Kazakh-Uzbek intergovernmental commission for bilateral cooperation on March 11, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
