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ASTANA (TCA) — On July 10-12, the Minister of Agriculture of China Han Changfu is paying a visit to Kazakhstan. The visit included a Kazakhstan-China Agrarian Investment Forum in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has urged people in the predominantly Muslim country not to wear beards or hijabs, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 11 signed a law that bars people without previous government experience from running for the country’s president.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Moscow is reportedly negotiating sending troops from its CSTO allies — Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — to monitor the military situation in Syria. The move, if it happens, certainly meets Russia’s political goals but it would bring nothing but headaches to the Central Asian countries, which are still reluctant to sign up to Moscow’s initiative. We are republishing this article by Uran Botobekov on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s camel products can be exported to the markets of the Middle East and the entire Muslim world, Gauhar Konysbaeva, the camel breeding expert at the Center for Agro-competencies of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan, said at a camel breeding seminar organized for agrarians of the Atyrau region, Atameken reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on July 10 approved US$50 million from the International Development Association for the Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Against Natural Hazards Project in Tajikistan. The project will strengthen the country’s capacity to prepare for, mitigate and respond to natural disasters. Related investments will help Tajikistan—a country prone to floods, mudslides, and earthquakes, and exposed to considerable climate change risks—to be able to prepare for potential natural disasters and to improve critical infrastructure, the World Bank said.
