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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on April 23 witnessed the contract signing of three Asian Development Bank-financed (ADB) energy contracts, which will help Afghanistan enhance energy security and efficiency, boost energy supply, and strengthen the country’s cross-border trade in energy, ADB’s country office in Afghanistan said.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — On April 25-27, Tashkent will host the first exhibition of Russian commodity producers “Expo-Russia Uzbekistan 2018”, aimed at further developing trade and economic cooperation between Uzbekistan and Russia, the Jahon information agency reports.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Russia has offered Tajikistan to become a country with an observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union, Tajikistan’s Avesta news agency reported with reference to Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Young people under 30 years of age are prevented from boarding international flights in Ashgabat airport without any reason, the independent foreign-based news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Russia’s LUKOIL oil company has commissioned a Gas Processing Complex at the Kandym fields cluster in Uzbekistan. The official opening ceremony on April 19 was attended by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Aleksander Novak, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenyov, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Uzbekistan Kwon Yong Woo, and President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Centerra Gold Inc., the Canadian-based gold mining company which operates the Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan, on April 20 announced that it has agreed with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to extend the First Longstop Date under the Strategic Agreement for Environmental Protection and Investment Promotion previously entered into with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on September 11, 2017. The First Longstop Date is the date by which all conditions precedent to the completion of the Strategic Agreement are required to be satisfied and it has been extended by agreement of the parties from April 20, 2018 to May 31, 2018.
