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BISHKEK (TCA) — Launch of the Koshoi sugar processing plant in the Chui province of northern Kyrgyzstan is an important step in ensuring the country’s food security, First Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Tolkunbek Abdygulov said at the plant’s launch ceremony.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A prominent Uzbek human rights advocate, Ganihon Mamathonov, has been released by Uzbek authorities after spending eight years in prison, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reports.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The European Union-funded Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP) late last week handed over specialized medical equipment (medical beds, laryngoscopes, defibrillator, patient monitors, oxygen concentrator, biochemical semiautomatic analyser and others) to the regional narcological centre in Tajikistan’s Kulyab city, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said.
EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador Peter Burian took part in the handover ceremony. “We hope that with the provision of the equipment, the assortment and quality of the service provided for the treatment of drug dependence and emergency care to drug users will be significantly expanded,” he said.
Dr. Mahmadrahim Malahov, Director of the Republican Clinical Centre of Narcology and other representatives of the Ministry of Healthcare from the region and local departments of health (Kulyab district, Khatlon region) were also present. They thanked the European Union for providing such essential medical equipment for the regional narcological clinic.
“We are sure that implementation of joint projects in key drug policy directions will increase effectiveness of measures undertaken in reducing drug supply and drug demand and will help us to decrease threats of drug use,” told Dr Malahov.
The medical equipment will be used at the emergency department. It renders specialised narcological help to drug users, such as with overdoses and other drug-related conditions.
CADAP purchased the medical equipment based on official request from the Republican Clinical Centre of Narcology within its Treatment Component, implemented by the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. The cost of the provided equipment is 41000 Euros.
CADAP 6 represents continuity of the EU policy and long-term engagement with Central Asian partners to help further strengthen their national strategies in drug and drug demand reduction policies. The programme is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Consortium from the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany, led by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on October 15 that the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline which is being built in Turkmenistan is expected to reach the Afghan border in Herat by January, TOLOnews agency reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Officials from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and the United States — members of the four-nation Quadrilateral Coordination Group — met in Oman on October 16 to try to find ways of reviving Afghanistan peace talks with the Taliban, RFE/RL’s Afghan Service reported.
LONDON (TCA) — It is a warm, sunny and lazy Sunday afternoon in the Kyrgyz capital and all is quiet. The ominous spectre of mass demonstrations, burning vehicles, charging security forces and shootouts invoked by western “revolution manufacturers” and mass media parroting them is as remote as remote could ever be. Kyrgyz people go or do not go to vote, with both categories expressing a pragmatic approach to politics: let things go on as they do, let leaders govern and leave business to the population. This overall attitude explains why hardly more than half of the voters bothered to vote in the first place.
