ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan has adopted the Resolution declaring 2019 as the year “Turkmenistan – the Home of Prosperity”, Turkmen state media reported. The document says that it has become a good tradition to give the name to a year in Turkmenistan, which forms up the country’s most important events. It supports the enhancement of patriotism and intent of every individual to be involved and contribute to achievements in the country, the Resolution says.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — India Ports Global Limited has taken over operations at the Shaheed Behesti port at Chabahar (Iran), India’s Ministry of External Affairs said after the first meeting of the follow-up committee for implementation of the trilateral Chabahar Agreement between India, Afghanistan and Iran, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Residents and visitors to Karakol, a municipality with a population of over 70,000 people and a major tourist destination in Kyrgyzstan, will benefit from regular uninterrupted access to fresh drinking water, secured after the implementation of a municipal investment project supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Swiss Government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the EBRD said on December 24.

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KABUL (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) of Afghanistan have inaugurated the distribution of 80 off-grid solar kits, called “electricity-in-a-box”, to rural households near Kabul without grid electricity, ADB’s Country Office reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — E-Zhasyl LLP, founded by a consortium of Spanish companies GruppoAnka, ftE and SoroznoEco, has started a series of projects on construction of waste recycling facilities with energy production in Kazakhstan. The total cost of the projects is 147 million euros, Kazakh Invest national company for investment support and promotion said on its website.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakh Invest national company for investment support and promotion and the Turkish company BioTRend Energy recently signed a Memorandum on further cooperation in the construction of a waste processing complex in Kazakhstan. The document was signed after a meeting in Astana between Saparbek Tuyakbayev, the Chairman of the Board of Kazakh Invest, and Murat Aslan, the head of BioTRend Energy, Kazakh Invest reported.

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