EurasiaNet
BISHKEK (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has so far built the most friendly and close relations with next-door neighbor Turkmenistan, with other Central Asian neighbors also mending ties with Tashkent in various spheres. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Sharing the waters of trans-boundary rivers is an old problem in Central Asia and now such a conflict is brewing between Iran and Afghanistan over the Kamal Khan Dam project in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province that borders Iran.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Seven new free economic zones in Uzbekistan will specialize in growing medicinal plant feedstock for the country’s pharmaceutical industry, the Jahon information agency reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan plans by 2022 to increase its annual production of natural gas by 53.5 billion cubic meters, gas condensate by 1.1 million tons, and oil by 1.9 million tons, following from materials of the Uzbekneftegaz national oil and gas company distributed during the Global Oil & Gas Uzbekistan-2017 international exhibition in Tashkent last week, Fergana News Agency reported citing Interfax.
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ASTANA (TCA) — At the Kazakhstan-UAE Business Forum in Astana on May 22, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the United Arab Emirates and the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan on the creation of a joint business council “United Arab Emirates-Kazakhstan” aimed to intensify trade, economic and investment cooperation between entrepreneurs of the two countries, Atameken reported.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s authorities plan to introduce toll roads in the country. Charging for the use of roads will remove the financial burden from the State and will make citizens more responsible for the condition of roads, the Government believes.
