ASTANA (TCA) — An economic forum “Investment Opportunities for German Companies in Kazakhstan Based on the Example of Regions” was held on September 12 in Munich, the capital city of Bavaria, one of the largest and industrially developed regions of Germany. The event was aimed at attracting German investments and technologies to the economy of Kazakhstan and was organized by Kazakh Invest National Company for Investment Support and Promotion with organizational support of the Kazakh Embassy in Germany, Kazakh Invest reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — A business forum was held in the Kazakh city of Uralsk for representatives of governments and businesses of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan and Kazakhstan’s West Kazakhstan region. Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, headed the Tatarstan delegation. The Kazakh side was represented by Altai Kulginov, governor of West Kazakhstan region, heads of Kazakh Invest National Company for Investment Support and Promotion, and representatives of the business community of the region, Kazakh Invest reported on September 11.

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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan CEO Abdullah Abdullah, John Bass, US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Subhash Desai, India’s Minister for Industries and Mining and other officials on September 12 opened the 2nd annual India-Afghanistan International Trade and Investment Show in India’s Mumbai city, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President Azay Guliyev (Azerbaijan) on September 12 in Tashkent spoke at the seminar on the “Role of Parliaments in engaging Afghanistan into Central Asian Cooperation Frameworks through Preventive Diplomacy” by the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Video has emerged of a scuffle that broke out this week between Tajik government officials and opposition activists outside one of Europe’s biggest annual human rights and democracy conferences, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.

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