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BISHKEK (TCA) — From July 20-23, U.S. government officials met with senior delegations from the five Central Asian republics in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to discuss progress under the three C5+1 Working Groups — Environment, Economic Connectivity, and Security, the U.S. State Department said in a July 23 statement.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Unlike his predecessor, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has shown his readiness to work together with the country’s civil society for solving pressing problems. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by Eurasianet:
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the United Nations, together with Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, last week held a presentation headlined “Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Gas Pipeline: New Energy Silk Road to Provide Access to Reliable, Sustainable and Modern Energy For All” at the UNDP headquarters in New York, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakh artist, Honorary Ambassador of the ATOM Project Karipbek Kuyukov has been announced a winner of the 2018 Nuclear-Free Future Award. The decision of the international jury was published on the website of the Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation last week. The award ceremony will take place in Salzburg, Austria, this October, the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The foreign ministers of Central Asia countries said they had agreed to increase cooperation against international terrorism and religious extremism after a meeting in the Kyrgyz resort city of Cholpon-Ata held on July 20-22.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum narrowly escaped a deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport as he returned home from more than a year in exile in Turkey over allegations of torturing and abusing a political rival, RFE/RL reported.
