TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s state oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz will set up a joint venture on a parity basis with a foreign investor for geological exploration of investment blocks Sechankul, Akdjar, and Chimbai, as well as for development of Urga, Akchalak, and Chandyr deposits, the company’s press service said.
TASHKENT (TCA) — In 2016 the economy of Uzbekistan will receive an equivalent of US $17.3 billion of capital investment, 23.5 percent of which will be foreign investments, Uzbek President Islam Karimov said in his New Year address to the nation.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s state natural-gas company Turkmengas on January 4 said that Russia’s Gazprom Export, the export arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom, had notified Turkmengas of a decision to terminate purchases of Turkmen natural gas in January 2016.
ASTANA (TCA) — A Patriotic Act aimed at strengthening the people’s unity will be adopted in Kazakhstan, the country’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Politically and economically, Central Asia will largely depend on Russia’s and China’s recovery and any prediction for 2016 can make sense only with consideration of the political and economic capabilities of these two countries.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon met with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh City on January 3.
