TASHKENT (TCA) — The government of Uzbekistan has offered for sale state-owned stakes in the country’s two commercial banks, the Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — The European Union is looking for alternative routes to export its products to Kazakhstan’s market, the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan said at a press conference in the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture on April 14, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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.
Kyrgyzstan’s new Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan on April 13 elected Sooronbai Jeenbekov the country’s new Prime Minister.
