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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s economic growth is projected to increase slightly to 2.6 percent in 2017 from 2.2 percent in 2016 as the country’s deteriorating security weighs on the economy, according to the latest Afghanistan Development Update series released on November 21 by the World Bank.
LONDON (TCA) — It has been no one less than Kazakhstan’s head of state and veteran politician Nursultan Nazarbayev who was lately quoted by Tass as stating that “the re-emergence of terrorist cells following the heavy blow dealt to Islamic State in the Middle East is a serious challenge for Eurasian states. […] International terrorism has acquired a catastrophic scope, it has no borders. Any part of the globe can become a target for a disastrous onslaught.”
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The global background for the recovery of economic growth in the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) member states — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan — has improved this year. Improvements included an increase in the world’s oil prices as well as greater global economic growth, according to the findings presented in The Macroeconomic Review published by the Chief Economist Group at the EDB on November 20.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — On November 22-25, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a state visit to the Republic of Korea at the invitation of President Moon Jae-in, the press service of the Uzbek president said.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Coca-Cola Turkmenistan is on the brink of shutdown and has already closed down production at its manufacturing facilities located in Ashgabat, the independent foreign-based news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reported on November 20.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Outgoing President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev said at his final press conference on November 20 that he will remain in politics after he leaves office later this week, saying that he plans to lead the ruling Social Democratic Party in parliamentary elections in 2020, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
