BISHKEK (TCA) — As Uzbekistan is improving its relations with next-door neighbors in Central Asia, Tashkent now pays special attention to Afghanistan, which could become a new promising market and transit destination for Uzbek goods. We are republishing this article by Umida Hashimova on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s First MicroFinance Bank (FMFB) has become the latest financial institution in the country to join the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Climate Resilience Financing Facility (CLIMADAPT), a programme designed to promote the private sector’s resilience to the effects of climate change, the EBRD said on December 15.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The father of two suspects in a deadly subway bombing in St. Petersburg has lost his Russian citizenship and will be deported to Kyrgyzstan, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported citing the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — At the invitation of President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov paid an official visit to Uzbekistan on December 13-14. The parties have close views on many issues, and “this has never been a history of Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations,” President Mirziyoyev said after the talks.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — An agreement in which Switzerland commits to allocate CHF 430,000 (approximately EUR 370,000) in support of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek over the next three years was signed by the Swiss Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Véronique Hulmann and the Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Programme Office in Bishkek, Pierre von Arx on December 14 in Bishkek. The grant will be used to strengthen the Academy’s research capacities.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts that economic expansion in Developing Asia, including Central Asia, will accelerate to 6.0% in 2017 as stronger than expected exports and domestic consumption fuel growth.
