Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — Business activity of the female population has increased in Central Asia countries in recent years and the number of enterprises headed by women is growing.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay the first official visit to Belarus on July 31-August 1, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Belarus Nasirdjan Yusupov told a press briefing in Minsk, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Acting Minister of Transportation, Yama Yari, on July 26 inaugurated work on the construction of Aqina-Andkhoi railway in Afghanistan’s Faryab province, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
Yari said the 30-kilometer railway will connect Aqina port with Andkhoi in Turkmenistan and that the project will cost $30 million.
“Such projects will create jobs to residents of [Faryab] province,” he said. “I hope the project is completed on its time with the help of Faryab residents.”
The MoU for construction of the railway was signed by Afghan and Turkmen officials in February.
Construction of the railway in Afghanistan is carried out through the finance of the Turkmen side and with the use of Turkmen personnel and material resources (workers, engineers, and equipment including railway machines, cranes, and construction materials), the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported. Turkmen specialists not only build the railroad but also develop infrastructure facilities.
In the future, this railroad is planned to be extended to the border with Tajikistan with further entry to the states of the Asian Pacific region. This will give Afghanistan an opportunity to become an important link of international transport corridors running across Central Asia in the North–South and East–West directions.
Today, Afghanistan seeks additional sales markets for its agricultural production, and the Aqina–Andkhoi railway line will open new opportunities for Afghan products to enter the world market.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyzstan counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov on July 26 met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border as they look to ease tensions in the border area.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The prospects of Uzbekistan potentially joining the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union entail both potential economic advantages and political risks for the country. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by Fozil Mashrab:
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TASHKENT (TCA) — At a government meeting on the issues of further development of small business and entrepreneurship in Uzbekistan held earlier this week, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that heads of administrations of the regions, districts, cities and their first deputies should work in a completely new way and devote 70 percent of their time to development of entrepreneurship, the Jahon information agency reported.
