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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan officials received the delivery of 25 buses and three tractors from Uzbekistan at Hairatan at the Afghan-Uzbek border on January 10. The buses will be used in the capital Kabul, Afghan Minister of Transportation and Civil Aviation Mohammad Hamid Tahmasi said, TOLOnews reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov arrived in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, on January 10 for a two-day official visit. The trip comes after Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev last week announced his planned fence-mending visit to Tajikistan, whose exact date was not indicated.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Economic growth in Europe and Central Asia is anticipated to ease to 2.9 percent in 2018 from an estimated 3.7 percent in 2017, the World Bank says in its January 2018 Global Economic Prospects.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — A container train making another China–Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan–Iran test run passed through Turkmenistan to Iran via Akyayla railway station, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A White House statement on January 9 said that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the White House on January 16. The two leaders “will discuss ways to strengthen and enhance strategic partnership on regional security issues and economic cooperation,” the statement said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A spokesman for Moldovan businessman Anatolie Stati says that Stati will demand the sale of a $5.2 billion stake in Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea if Astana refuses to pay an arbitration award, RFE/RL reports.
