ASTANA (TCA) — The Minister of Economic Integration of Kazakhstan, Zhanar Aitzhanova, and European Union Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström discussed the issue of awarding the status of a market economy to Kazakhstan, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported on March 1.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States, through the “USAID Defeat TB Project,” has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan to provide tuberculosis treatment to patients on an outpatient basis in the southern Jalal-Abad oblast, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on March 1.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Back in 2014, then minister of economic affairs of Kazakhstan Kairat Kelimbetov stated at the Astana Economic Forum that the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in the course of its formation “is learning a lot from the European Union – not just from the latter’s successes, but also from its mistakes”. Today, that statement is being put to the test – especially concerning the admission of Kyrgyzstan and Armenia by the bloc’s three founding members: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
TEHRAN (TCA) — Representatives of major Indian natural gas importers are due to visit Iran early in March to discuss a long-proposed undersea gas pipeline which New Delhi sees as an alternative to a gas-pipeline project via Pakistan, Iran’s PressTV reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — The largest Jewish center in Central Asia will be opened in the town of Akkol located 100 kilometers from the Kazakh capital Astana, said Danil Vais, president of the Akkol Jewish community.
ALMATY (TCA) — Production of paper from technical (non-narcotic) hemp within the framework of import substitution policies was discussed last week at a meeting of the Secretariat of the Manufacturing Industry Committee of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan.
