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KABUL (TCA) — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters during an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on October 23 that Washington thinks that moderate elements among the Taliban exist and they can be part of the country’s government, Sputnik news agency reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A workshop on National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment (NRA), organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), started on October 23 in Uzbekistan’s capital city, Tashkent.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — An international roundtable discussion on modern technologies for domestic solid waste management and its investment potential was organized on October 23 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan together with Uzbekistan’s parliament, the Oliy Majlis, and the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan.
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ASTANA (TCA) — In 2017, in Kazakhstan, the freight turnover along the transit corridor Western Europe–Western China has reached 600 thousand tons, Roman Sklyar, Kazakh Vice Minister for Investment and Development, said at a press conference on October 23, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s national currency, the manat, has abruptly fallen to a low on the country’s black market, which more accurately reflects the situation in Turkmenistan’s troubled economy than the official fixed exchange rate, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — As separatist trends are getting stronger in the world, as in Spain’s Catalonia and Iraq’s Kurdistan, Kazakhstan, too, may face separatist threats, largely caused by the government’s internal economic policies. We are republishing this article by Paul Goble on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
