Sergey Kwan
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.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and with the support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on July 12 concluded a seminar focusing on Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) experience in the field of Official Development Assistance (ODA): gender equality and promotion of women’s rights, UNDP in Kazakhstan reported.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — An OSCE-supported international forum on the Green Bridge Partnership Programme (GBPP), a platform for promoting best practices and innovations for a green economy, started on July 12 in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, the OSCE Programme Office in Astana said.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — Germany is aware of how important this EXPO is for Kazakhstan. It is the first time ever that the EXPO has been hosted by a Central Asian country – and that’s a great success, German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at the opening of Germany’s National Day at EXPO 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 12.
Sergey Kwan
BEIJING (TCA) — China plans to invest $2 billion in the creation of an industrial park in Syria that will initially bring together 150 Chinese companies, Qin Yong, the deputy chairman of the China-Arab Exchange Association, announced on July 9 during the first Syria reconstruction projects fair in Beijing, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported. Observers believe that by doing so, China has sent a strong signal about its geopolitical interests in Syria.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — In the first half of 2017, transit traffic through Kazakhstan and Latvia increased by 15 percent, the head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) Kanat Alpysbaev said at the international conference “Prospects of global transport communication. Eurasian potential”, held in Astana on July 10, KTZ’s press office reported.
