Sergey Kwan
MOSCOW (TCA) — Officials from China, Russia and the United States on April 25 reached consensuses on various aspects of the Afghanistan issue including sovereignty, internal dialogue, terrorism, military withdrawals and smuggling, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
Sergey Kwan
BISHKEK (TCA) — It is estimated that about half of the world’s obsolete pesticides can be found in the former Soviet Union, with many of them stored throughout Central Asia. As an important centre for agriculture, particularly cotton production, the region was a heavy user of pesticides. What remain are inappropriate burial sites, regulatory and management deficits, and other issues, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says.
Sergey Kwan
TASHKENT (TCA) — The launch ceremony of a new five-year project to develop the livestock sector in Uzbekistan took place on April 23. The project is jointly funded by the European Union (€15 million) and the World Bank ($150 million) and aims to address major problems in the livestock sector such as low productivity, insufficient value addition, limited access to finance and to market for smallholder farmers, poor coordination among various stakeholders and inefficient value chain management, lack of quality of animal health services, and meagre resources for research institutions, the Delegation of the European Union to Uzbekistan reported.
Sergey Kwan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced a former lawmaker from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, Damirbek Asylbek-Uulu, to 10 years in prison on smuggling charges at a hearing that was interrupted by a fight between defendants, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
Sergey Kwan
KABUL (TCA) — A report by the United Nations says U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more civilians than the number killed by Taliban fighters and other militants for the first time during a three-month period since the UN began keeping records on civilian casualties in 2009, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
Sergey Kwan
DUSHANBE (TCA) — China is the largest foreign investor in Tajikistan — and all of Central Asia — and Beijing’s growing economic expansion in the region is being complemented by the growing military and security influence in this strategic area. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by Stephen Blank:
