Sergey Kwan
BISHKEK (TCA) — United Nations agencies in Kyrgyzstan have expressed concern over the brutal killing of a 20-year-old woman by her abductor, and urged the Central Asian country to take “all appropriate measures” to stop illegal practices such as bride kidnapping as well as child and forced marriage, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — The upper house of the Kazakh parliament has approved a bill allowing President Nursultan Nazarbayev to lead the country’s Security Council for life, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
Sergey Kwan
TASHKENT (TCA) — Achieving peace in Afghanistan requires the resolve and joint efforts of many players inside the war-torn country, in the Central Asia region and beyond — but the interests of those players still differ. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Farkhod Tolipov*, originally published by the CACI Analyst:
Sergey Kwan
TASHKENT (TCA) — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has issued its inaugural bond in Uzbek national currency, the Soum, raising UZS 80 billion — ten million USD equivalent — to expand lending for micro, small and medium enterprises in Uzbekistan. This is the first-ever Uzbek Soum-denominated transaction issued in the international markets, the IFC said.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Ms. Padamja Khandelwal, visited Tajikistan during May 14−23 to conduct discussions on recent macroeconomic developments and the country’s economic outlook.
Sergey Kwan
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Sixth Russia-Tajikistan Interregional Cooperation Conference took place in Dushanbe on 29 May. For years the Conference has been viewed as one of the main platforms for interregional cooperation discussions between the two countries.
