Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev (left) and acting Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev on September 12 (akorda.kz)
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on September 12 visited Uzbekistan to pay his respects to late President Islam Karimov, who died of a stroke earlier this month, the Kazakh president’s press service said.
ASTANA (TCA) — The desire to live and think in the tenge should be one of the ideological trends that we are ready to implement in conjunction with the Presidential Administration and the Government, the Chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Daniyar Akishev said at the expanded meeting of the Kazakh Government last Friday with the participation of the President, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — A new variety of rice is being tested now in Kazakhstan’s southern Kyzylorda region for further export, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on its website.
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — The second seminar of the OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) took place on September 10 and 11 in Kara-Oi village in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul region for around 40 university students, new members of the CAYN and alumni from Afghanistan, Central Asia and Mongolia.
LONDON (TCA) — The latest shift in Kazakhstan’s highest echelons of state power has almost immediately led to speculations concerning the eventuality that the head of state, now 76, but apparently still in good health as opposed to his ailing peer in Uzbekistan, is preparing the ground for his succession.
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