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ASTANA (TCA) — The first batch of flour from Kostanai region in northern Kazakhstan is expected to go to China this year, after Kostanai’s flour-grinding enterprise KazTorgTrans has agreed with Chinese importers on the first deliveries of its flour, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Germany’s Siemens and the State Committee for Investments (SCI) of Uzbekistan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, the first document to cover the most relevant issues of cooperation between the company and Uzbekistan in the areas of mutual interest, the Jahon information agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan continue negotiations on their border delimitation and demarcation, as the border line between the two countries remains unsettled since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sputnik news agency reported citing the Kyrgyz government’s press service.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Supporters of jailed opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party leader Omurbek Tekebaev, who is being tried on charges of bribe-taking, have started a hunger strike in Kyrgyzstan, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Under the new president, Uzbekistan is pursuing a policy of agricultural diversification — reduction of land areas under cotton, which has been the country’s main agricultural export item for decades, in favor of fruit and vegetables, whose export is to bring in even more money to Uzbek farmers and more hard currency to the State. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan is ready to buy up to 500 thousand tons of Russian crude by the end of this year for its new oil refinery being built in the Jizzakh province, Russia’s Izvestiya newspaper reported with reference to a letter from Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov to Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
