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BISHKEK (TCA) — Enhancing security dialogue in Central Asia, countering new challenges and threats in border areas, promoting Mediterranean cooperation and strengthening citizens’ engagement in building secure societies have been among the topics of debate at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 17th Autumn Meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan this week.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Carrying on a tradition of over 25 years of partnership between the United States and Tajikistan, the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe has provided a school and a clinic to better assist local communities. On behalf of the Embassy, Isfara District Officials opened the Isfara School #31 in Sughd Province and Shahrtuz District officials opened the Korez Village Health Clinic in Khatlon Province, the Embassy reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Office of the National Security Council (NSC) on October 4 said the government would consider all legal options against anyone who tries to privatize the war in Afghanistan, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court has ruled that the immunity enjoyed by the country’s former presidents is unconstitutional, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Dozens of ethnic Kazakhs originally from China appealed to Germany’s chancellor for help in seeking the release of relatives from so-called “reeducation camps” in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Province, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is threatening to drop boxing from the Olympics over “extreme concern” that an Uzbek businessman accused of having ties to organized crime is running unopposed to become president of the amateur boxing association, RFE/RL reports.
