DUSHANBE (TCA) — Improved management of irrigation and water resources in the Zarafshon river basin of northern Tajikistan will help farmers increase their crop yields and provide greater food security for the local population, thanks to the Zarafshon Irrigation Rehabilitation and Management Improvement Project, launched by the Government of Tajikistan and the World Bank. The Project is being financed through a EUR 13.9 million grant from the Development Fund of the European Commission.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim met with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on May 17 to discuss Uzbekistan’s social and economic transformation and to reaffirm the World Bank Group’s support for reforms to accelerate economic growth and boost shared prosperity. The meeting in Washington, DC took place on the margins of Mirziyovev’s first official visit to the United States.

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ASTANA (TCA) — In the first joint internationally financed project in renewable energy the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is organising a loan together with the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to fund the construction of a 50 MW solar power plant in Baikonur in central Kazakhstan, a region known as the base for space exploration and a testing ground, the EBRD said on May 17.

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ALMATY (TCA) — The OSCE-supported Ninth Annual Central Asian Forum on Internet Development began on May 17 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and China on May 17 signed an agreement on trade and economic cooperation, the first major systematic arrangement ever reached between the two sides, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

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