ASTANA (TCA) — On September 3, Shanghai hosted the Kazakh-Chinese roundtable with the “Captains of Chinese business” on the development of industrial and investment cooperation between Kazakhstan and China, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan will be able to increase oil supplies to China almost threefold. The two countries have also agreed on Kazakh food export to China and construction of joint production facilities in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a September 5 briefing on the results of his visit to China where he took part in the G20 summit in Hangzhou and had meetings with the Chinese leadership and business companies, the president’s press service reported.
Muhiddin Kabiri
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of Tajikistan’s banned Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT), has been added to Interpol’s wanted list on the request from Tajikistan’s authorities.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee says a group of radical Islamists that was arrested in recent weeks in the southern region of Almaty planned to hijack a plane and conduct “a 9/11-like” attack, RFE/RL reports.
René Cagnat, doctor of political sciences, associate researcher at IRIS, and a specialist in Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The death of President Karimov is watched by International media and all Central Asia republics, as well as such powers as Russia, China and the United States, due to the fact that what will happen next in Uzbekistan may outline a future scenario and alliance of the entire Central Asia. The following article is an excerpt from what has been written by Rene Cagnat, an expert in Central Asia, who for many years served as the military attache at the French Embassy in Tashkent. Now Mr. Cagnat is living between Paris and Bishkek, and the following excerpt was translated from French into English by The Times of Central Asia. The full article in French can be read here
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev (akorda.kz)
ASTANA (TCA) — Speaking at the G20 summit in China’s Hangzhou on September 4, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested establishing a Global economic regulator by transforming the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) into a Global Development Council, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reports with reference to Nazarbayev’s press service.
