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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Twenty-two border and customs officers from Afghanistan and Tajikistan graduated from the Afghan Border Police Border Management Awareness Course on July 13 at the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) in Dushanbe.
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KABUL (TCA) — Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Afghanistan on July 13. During his one-day visit, the Federal President met Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah for political talks in Kabul. The Federal President also visited the memorial at Camp Marmal to remember the German soldiers killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan, and addressed German troops as well as representatives of international forces and civilian personnel.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A High-Level EU mission has paid an official visit to Tajikistan. The mission consisted of Mr. Stefano Manservisi, Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation, and Mr. Peter Burian, EU Special Representative for Central Asia. They arrived to look into the current EU–Tajikistan relations, in particular in the process of implementation of the country`s New Development Strategy 2016–2030, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — As the economic situation in Turkmenistan has worsened amid lower natural gas prices and consequently decreasing gas-export revenues, authorities have embarked on a campaign to combat corruption and embezzlement in the higher echelons of Turkmen government. Will it help the country get more much-needed cash? We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan on July 12 released a book of President Emomali Rahmon’s wit and wisdom, thus extending the strongman leader’s personality cult in the Central Asian nation, RFE/RL reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance on July 12 signed a financing package of $482.3 million in grants with the World Bank to help the country through a difficult phase in its struggle to end poverty.
