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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s automobile manufacturer LLP SaryarkaAvtoProm is expanding the line of motor vehicles produced and increasing exports. This was said during the visit of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev to the company’s plant in Kostanay on May 15, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Portfolio companies of Kazakhstan’s national wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC have signed several agreements with Chinese partners as part of the official visit of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to China. Nazarbayev was in Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on May 14-15.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) is marking its tenth anniversary as an entity working on a mandate focused on preventive diplomacy. The Centre, located in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat, was established at the initiative of five Central Asian states by exchange of letters between the UN Secretary General and the President of the Security Council on 16 May 2007. In a region increasingly confronted with challenges and threats, UNRCCA has deployed preventive efforts to promote regional cooperation and assist Central Asian states to find mutually acceptable and beneficial solutions to these regional challenges, UNRCCA said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The State Property Management Fund under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic (SPMF) intends to reduce part of the non-operating enterprises with the state share by uniting them into a National Holding open joint-stock company.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — From 16 to 18 May, a meeting of the Regional Working Group including representatives from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will take place in Khujand, Tajikistan with the goal to develop the Explanatory Brochure in accordance with the UNECE Standard DDP-15 concerning marketing and commercial quality control of dried apricots produced in the Fergana Valley, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Sirojidin Aslov has defended his country’s huge Rogun hydroelectric power plant project, which has been questioned by neighboring Uzbekistan for years, RFE/RL reported.
