DUSHANBE (TCA) — To improve legitimate flow of people and goods and enhance counter trafficking capacity, UNDP’s EU-BOMNAF Project recently completed construction of a new facility for passport control, registration, customs inspection, and vehicle search as part of an upgrade project of the Border Crossing Point (BCP) at Aqina, in Faryab Province, northwest Afghanistan, on the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said on June 19.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Ten years after the adoption of the first Central Asia strategy, the EU Foreign Affairs Council on June 19 adopted conclusions on the EU strategy for the region.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — On June 19, Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat hosted the International conference, “Role of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in Developing Cooperation in the Central Asian Region”, Turkmenistan’s state Newspaper Golden Age reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Central Asia Drug Action Programme’s (CADAP) representatives last week met with Taalaybek Zhaparov, the Chairman of the State Service on Execution of Punishments under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to discuss the preparations for the construction of the “Clean zone” for convicted women in the women’s correctional institution No. 2, where it is planned to support and rehabilitate those who made a choice to quit drug use.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — “Kyrgyzstan should become a paradise for business, investors and for each entrepreneur, local and foreign, large and small,” Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said at the fifth meeting of the National Sustainable Development Council of the Kyrgyz Republic.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s national oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have launched natural gas production at Dengizkul, Khodjadavlat and Sharkiy Alat gas condensate fields in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, the Jahon information agency reported.

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