ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and Russia agreed on implementation of 27 investment projects in various sectors of the economy in the amount of about $4 billion during the 13th Kazakhstan-Russia Interregional Cooperation Forum held in Astana on October 4, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan has agreed to help the European Union forcibly return thousands of migrants by issuing travel documents and accepting them on return flights, RFE/RL reports.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, and the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica met on October 4 in Brussels with the Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Erlan Idrissov, Kyrgyzstan, Erlan Abdyldaev, Tajikistan, Sirodjidin Aslov, Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, and Uzbekistan, Abdulaziz Kamilov, for the 12th European Union-Central Asia Ministerial Meeting.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on October 4 signed a three-year agreement to improve food security, nutrition and resilience to climate-related and economic shocks for more than 80,000 vulnerable people in four Kyrgyz provinces, the two organizations said in a joint news release.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, east-west rail links are considered at least as important as maritime power. The various branches included in China’s ambitious plan to install a hardware network, in which rail and road links are crucial, face various problems, though. The problems include the failure of different players in the complex game, in particular Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, to come to a joint agreement to eliminate border hubs for transit traffic – not to speak of battlefield Afghanistan. This, as well as other factors, makes land routes more complicated and thereby more expensive than wished for.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — In the first half of this year, more than 163 thousand foreign tourists visited Tajikistan, spending almost US $82 million in the country, Avesta news agency reported citing Adkham Abdullozoda, the chairman of the Committee of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism of Tajikistan.
