KABUL (TCA) — A new World Bank report finds that Afghanistan has shown improved health outcomes since 2003, with health services that have remained resilient even in highly insecure provinces. The report entitled Progress in the Face of Insecurity: Improving Health Outcomes in Afghanistan, finds however that the uptick in insecurity since 2010 has slowed some gains, the World Bank said on March 6.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — On March 6, the Ambassador of Switzerland to the Kyrgyz Republic Mrs. Véronique Hulmann and the Minister of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Talantbek Batyraliev signed an agreement for a four-year project aiming at improving the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia has not decided yet whether it needs another military base in Kyrgyzstan, President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said on March 6. Speaking to journalists for the first time since his election as president in October, Jeenbekov said, “The decision on the second military base is yet to be made by Russia,” RFE/RL reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The younger daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov says she is leaving her post as president of Uzbekistan’s Gymnastics Federation, weeks after she resigned from the post of the country’s ambassador to UNESCO, RFE/RL reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Works are in full swing in Urgut, Pastdargom and Nurabad districts of the Samarkand province in Uzbekistan for the establishment of the Urgut free economic zone (FEZ) on an area of 816 hectares, the Jahon information agency reports.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Russian company Rosgeoperspektiva is expected to carry out geological exploration works to look for copper and gold reserves in the promising areas of Kazakhtau and Kazakhtau-1 in the Navoi region of Uzbekistan, the Jahon information agency reported.

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