ASTANA (TCA) — Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Gazprom Management Committee, Huang Weihe, Vice President of PetroChina (on behalf of China’s state-owned oil and gas company CNPC), and Daniyar Berlibayev, Executive Vice President for Transportation, Processing and Marketing of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas company KazMunayGas, on October 5 signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the 7th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum.

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ASTANA (TCA) — JSC KazTransGas, Kazakhstan’s national gas transportation company, and PetroChina International Company Limited have signed a sales agreement on the supply of 5 billion cubic meters of Kazakh natural gas to China during one calendar year. The expected export revenue of KazTransGas should be about US $1 billion, the Kazakh company said.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev reiterated the two neighboring countries’ readiness for closer cooperation during Atambayev’s official visit to Tashkent on October 5, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Given Tashkent’s security concerns over the rising insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan and Uzbekistan’s close-to-zero military cooperation with the US, the new Uzbek president is seeking more military, and security, cooperation with Russia, which is proven by the ongoing joint Russian-Uzbek military exercises in Uzbekistan. We are republishing this article by John C. K. Daly on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has assisted fifteen women farmers from mountainous areas of Osh and Naryn Oblasts in Kyrgyzstan to launch greenhouse vegetable production. In 1800 square meters of greenhouses they plan to grow cucumbers and tomatoes to sell during the off-season. These partnerships promote women’s entrepreneurship in agriculture and provide much needed additional income while also improving nutrition by making vegetables easily available to households in the community during times when access to vegetables is scarce, the US Embassy in Bishkek said on October 5.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The modernization of Kazakhstan’s agribusiness sector through the introduction of state-of-the-art information systems, like the Collect Mobile application for milk processors, was one of the key themes in a roundtable organized by the Dairy Union of Kazakhstan and the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs and supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Astana on 29 September, the EBRD press office reported.

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