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TASHKENT (TCA) — In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev pledged to focus his government on bringing greater prosperity and human rights to his country and the Central Asia region, RFE/RL reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A former top officer at Tajikistan’s Anticorruption Agency has been convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to 15 years in prison, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Air Force (AAF) has received its first U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as part of a planned replacement of its aging fleet of Russian-made helicopters, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s meeting with one of Kyrgyzstan’s leading presidential candidates, Omurbek Babanov, has sparked controversy in Kyrgyzstan, where a presidential election is scheduled for October 15, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
NEW DELHI (TCA) — On September 17 Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani emphasized the significance of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, lauding the contribution that such large-scale projects could make to the peaceful settlement of the situation in Afghanistan and the sustainable social and economic development of the entire Central Asian region.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The maximum potential of Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field will be revealed in 25-30 years, when oil extraction at the Caspian field is to reach 60 million tons per year to remain at that level for a long time, the President of the Kazakhstan Society of Petroleum Geologists Baltabek Kuandykov said in an interview with PrimeMinister.kz.
