LONDON (TCA) — In Central Asia job supplies do not match job demand since governments and their investment policy do not offer the required political stability and sufficient incentives to attract local and foreign investors. This simply means that migration of Kyrgyz, Tajik and Uzbek working forces toward Russia and in less number other countries is here to stay for quite a while.
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KABUL (TCA) — Representatives of Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan will meet within the next two months in Iran to discuss progress of a new railway project that will directly connect the five countries, Afghanistan Railway Authority said on September 4, TOLOnews agency reported.
The railway authority said the meeting will be convened so that concerned parties can discuss problems and construction progress.
According to the authority, technical and economic assessments of the first and second phases of the railway line in Afghanistan have been completed and that construction work will start soon.
The Afghan railway officials said that 50 percent of the total railway line will run through Afghanistan.
“A big part, almost 50 percent of the route, goes through Afghanistan. In fact, Afghanistan is the closest route to connect China and other countries to Iran’s ports,” the head of Afghanistan’s Railway Authority, Abdul Bari Sediqi said.
Meanwhile, the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) said once the railway line has been built, transit costs between the participating countries will decrease significantly.
“Two things are important in goods transit: the first one is time and the second one is cost. Less money and time will be spent if transportation is done by rail,” ACCI spokesman, Seyam Pesarlay, said.
The five-nation railway project that includes Iran, China, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan will eventually be 2,200 km long. In Afghanistan the railway will run from Kunduz to Herat province.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) presented the Concept of the Development of the Green Financial System of Kazakhstan at the conference “Strategy of ensuring regional leadership of AIFC in the sphere of green finance” which was held on September 4 in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Two human rights groups — the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) in Vienna and the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) — said on September 4 that the Turkmen government had “forcibly evicted” homeowners in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat and demolished their homes “without adequate compensation” in preparation for the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) Ashgabat will host this month.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which comprise the BRICS grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, at a summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen on September 4 called for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan and issued a statement that includes for the first time Pakistan-based militant groups as a regional security concern, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reports.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The United Nations Development Program, in conjunction with the State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan, has undertaken the large task of translating the internationally recognised Eurotrace computer software from English into Russian. Now that this essential piece of software is accessible to staff, this will assist in increasing the skills of employees at the State Statistics Committee and the State Customs Service in preparing reports and processing information on the foreign trade of Turkmenistan, UNDP in Turkmenistan reported.
