ASHGABAT (TCA) — The First Interactive Dialogue on Climate Change in Turkmenistan was organized on April 22 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to mark the Earth Day and the first day of signing the Paris Agreement, the UNDP in Turkmenistan reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — In Afghanistan, the Taliban has regained a foothold and launched the spring offensive codenamed “operation Omari,” after the name of its late leader Mullah Muhammad Omar. This will certainly nullify the peace efforts of the quadrilateral coordination group of China, the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan for reaching a direct dialogue between Kabul and the Taliban. The spring offensive will certainly escalate violence and further destabilize the country. Such development on the ground, with the Afghan government’s role in state management reduced by ever intensive fighting, may turn foreign intervention from a last option into the only option. With Afghanistan falling again into chaos, terrorism may spread to neighboring countries of Central Asia and probably China’s western Xinjiang region.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Electricity losses now amount to 1.5 billion soms (15 percent of the generated electricity) in Kyrgyzstan. The new National Energy Holding Company, which will bring together nine energy companies, aims to save about 200 million soms by optimizing the control and elimination of duplicating functions, head of the Holding, Aibek Kaliev said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Looking at figures, it can be concluded that Kyrgyzstan’s largest gold mine and champion moneymaker Kumtor is bound to be depleted within not too many years and the annual gold production can be more or less kept up only with the opening of new deposits.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Some sixty journalists on April 22 completed a series of OSCE-supported training courses in Osh and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on challenges related to reporting on religious beliefs and violent extremism.
