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ASTANA (TCA) — The Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan has rejected a Russian proposal to revisit the Central Asian country’s visa-free regime for U.S. citizens, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Participants from 21 countries, including Austria, China, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, France, Switzerland, and many more, gathered in Astana on March 16 for the KazGrain 2018 conference to discuss trends in the world grain market and prospects for the grain and flour markets in Central Asia, the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The European Union and Uzbekistan on March 15-16 held their 14th Subcommittee meeting on Justice and Home Affairs, Human Rights and related issues in Tashkent. The meeting covered a wide range of topics, including on further advancing bilateral and regional cooperation, the Delegation of the European Union to Uzbekistan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC), a Eurasian rail alliance of Russian Railways, the National Union Belarusian Railway and national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Austrian company Rail Cargo Austria AG. The parties intend to develop relations in the field of organization of cargo rail transportation in containers on the route China – Europe – China on the railroads of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support domestic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kazakhstan. A new project will help INTELLPACK – a privately owned distributor of warehouse equipment and producer of stretch film and duct tape – expand its operations in the country, the Bank said on March 15.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan is planning to hold an international conference “Women empowerment in Afghanistan” in autumn 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Ambassador at Large Stanislav Vassilenko said at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan late last week, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said.
