BISHKEK (TCA) — As of 31 March 2016, Kyrgyzstan’s foreign debt amounted to US $3.646 billion or 60.3 percent of the country’s GDP last year, the press service of the Kyrgyz Government said on May 10.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO is increasing its support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Central Asia with a €4.5 million contribution to the work of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Small Business Initiative (SBI) in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the EBRD Press Office said on May 10.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — On May 10, the Deputy Chairperson of the Tajik State Committee on Investments and State Property Management, Nigina Anvari, and World Bank Country Manager in Tajikistan Patricia Veevers-Carter launched a training program on private sector development that targets mid-level government officials in Tajikistan.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon signed a Joint Statement on expansion and strengthening of cooperation between Tajikistan and Afghanistan following their talks on May 10.
LONDON (TCA) — Recent reports from various sides concerning the increasing lack of cash flow for Daesh (IS) in the Near East due to difficulties in its Turkish oil smuggling chain add a new dimension to the already existing threat of extremist forces’ concentration in Afghanistan bordering the southern republics of Central Asia. Ever increasing assessments of the area’s world-class gold mining reserves must have drawn the attention of gang leaders of Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Daesh looking for alternative baits and a motive behind their “spring offensive” in Afghanistan and beyond.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Work is going on in Uzbekistan to assess the country’s wind energy potential in cooperation with Germany’s Intec Gopa and GEO-NET, Novosti Uzbekistana reported citing Dilshod Elmuradov, an energy efficiency and renewable energy engineer at Uzbekistan’s state energy company Uzbekenergo.
