TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — A senior Chinese diplomat has thrown his country’s weight behind Iran’s membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) which unites China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported.
TCA
TASHKENT (TCA) — Media reports in Uzbekistan say Rustam Azimov, an influential official who had been seen as a possible successor to the late President Islam Karimov, has been dismissed from the post of deputy prime minister, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reports.
EurasiaNet
ASHGABAT (TCA) — As authorities in Turkmenistan are trying to tackle the ongoing economic crisis in the country by administrative rather than economic measures, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — Growth in the Europe and Central Asia region continued to pick up in the first half of 2017, with commodity exporters and commodity importers alike achieving recovery. The region has benefited from rising oil prices, benign global financing conditions, robust growth in the Euro area, and generally supportive policies in several large countries in the area, according to the World Bank report “Global Economic Prospects June 2017: A Fragile Recovery”.
TCA
ASHGABAT (TCA) — On the eve of the grain-harvesting campaign, Turkmenistan has received the first batch of TUCANO 430 combine harvesters of the German company CLAAS. A ceremony of receiving the new agricultural machinery was held in Ak Bugday etrap of Akhal velayat (province), the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported on June 5.
TCA
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, is hosting the Central Asian international ecological forum “Initiative for cooperation in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development in Central Asia”. The three-day forum is devoted to climate change and rational use of water and has a value in the context of sustainable development of Central Asia, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported on June 5.
