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ASTANA (TCA) — The Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan says that China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to renounce their Chinese citizenship and leave the country.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Mirodil Jalolov, the jailed former CEO of the Uzbek firm Zeromax, has been released from a detention center in Tashkent after spending more than eight years in custody without a trial, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — In the course of a video conference on January 7 Deputy Prime Minister overseeing agriculture Esenmyrat Orazgeldiev briefed President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhmammedov on the progress of seasonal agricultural works in the country, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan independent news website reported.
The head of state gave Orazgeldiev some instructions for the implementation of the agricultural reform. Among other things, the President ordered paying attention to the historical agricultural experience obtained by the ancestors and preparing a collection of proverbs and sayings as well as adages, which, as viewed by Berdymukhammedov, precisely characterize the specifics of farming.
“Farming is an ancient branch of activity of the Turkmen nation. Our ancestors have gained rich and priceless experience of cultivation of agricultural crops in arid zone. This historical practice has not lost the relevance until our days. It has been formulated in great number of phrases, proverbs and sayings, which give precise characteristic to national farming,” the State News Agency of Turkmenistan quoted Berdymukhammedov as saying.
In this regard, the head of state assigned the vice-premier to organize the work in Turkmen Agricultural University for collection and development of the vocabulary of catchphrases which absorbed the wisdom of ancestors and remained in the people’s memory. These phrases have to reflect the work of farmers, careful attitude to water and land, knowledge about the cultivation of agricultural crops, and the practice of old days farming.
A decision was made to carry out the agricultural reform after a poor wheat harvest in 2018 when, according to official data, 1 million tons of wheat instead of the projected 1.6 million was harvested. This resulted in a deficit of flour and bread in Turkmenistan.
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KABUL (TCA) — Nearly 800,000 Afghan migrants returned or were deported back to Afghanistan from Iran in 2018 — an increase of two-thirds compared to the previous year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on January 8, RFE/RL reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $4.5 million cluster regional technical assistance grant to support an increase in regional power trade in Central Asia Power System (CAPS) and explore potential reconnection of Turkmenistan to CAPS and its further expansion to Afghanistan, ADB’s Country Office in Uzbekistan said on January 7.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Sources close to the Uzbek government have told RFE/RL that a corruption trial has begun in Tashkent against the country’s former prosecutor-general, Rashidjon Qodirov, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
