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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.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A new logistics center for processing fruit and vegetables, founded by the Uzbekistan-Latvian joint venture Olchazor Impex, will soon be commissioned in Shahrisabz in Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan, the Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — As Kazakhstan and the US have recently renewed an agreement on military cooperation, Russian experts consider the impact it will have on Russian-Kazakh ties, specifically with regard to prospects of a US naval base in the Caspian Sea, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
