TASHKENT (TCA) — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is advising the government of Uzbekistan on a landmark public-private partnership (PPP) transaction that will lead to the creation of a 100-megawatt solar plant in Navoi region. This project will be the first phase of a larger government initiative to generate up to 1-gigawatt of new solar energy, helping the country reduce dependence on gas and increase its share of renewable energy in the energy mix, the IFC said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Rusprom and Transcom on March 27 signed a trilateral memorandum of cooperation to jointly implement a project to set up and develop an integrated e-government system in Kyrgyzstan for public and municipal authorities in the framework of the Decree declaring 2019 the Year of the Development of Regions and Digitalisation of the Country passed by the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on 11 January 2019, the EDB said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Russian–Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) have signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding, cooperation and interaction, the EDB’s press service said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million financing package to modernize aging equipment and improve power generation capacity at the Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant (HPP), the oldest of the six HPPs installed along the Naryn River cascade in Kyrgyzstan, ADB’s country office said.

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KABUL (TCA) — Any future peace agreement in Afghanistan will be unsustainable if tens of thousands of Taliban militants are not adequately reintegrated into society, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report, Sputnik news agency reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s one-day visit to Kyrgyzstan on March 28, Bishkek and Moscow agreed to expand the territory of Russia’s military base in the Central Asian country by 60 hectares, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.

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