BISHKEK (TCA) — On March 10 the Kyrgyz Parliament ratified the agreement with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to allocate $16.3 million for the purchase of new equipment for the Manas airport in Bishkek.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Alliance française in Bishkek jointly with the Embassies of Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Club France are holding the week of Francophonie in Bishkek from March 12 to 19.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek civil society activists on behalf of more than 140,000 people from around the world on March 9 in Washington, DC presented a petition to World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, calling on the Bank to suspend lending to the agriculture sector in Uzbekistan until the Uzbek government changes its policy of forced labor in the cotton industry, said the Cotton Campaign, a global coalition of labor, human rights, investor and business organizations coalesced to end forced labor of children and adults in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan will take part in a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries if it receives an invitation, Kazakh Energy Minister Vladimir Shkolnik said on the sidelines of the Parliament’s meeting on March 10, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — An independent United Nations human rights expert on March 10 voiced concern over the increasing Government restrictions on opposition parties, civil society and the media over the past year in Tajikistan.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Small hydro power plants are among the most cost-effective and ecologically safe electricity generation sources and Kyrgyzstan should make a breakthrough in this sector, the country’s Prime Minister Temir Sariyev said on March 9 at the government meeting on small HPPs construction.
