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KABUL (TCA) — The Taliban militant group has sent an “open letter” to U.S. President Donald Trump, calling for the United States to leave Afghanistan rather than increase the number of troops after 16 years of war, RFE/RL reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — More than half of the $76 billion worth of US military aid sent to Afghanistan security forces since 2002 has been “looted and embezzled” due to “brazen corruption” that has seen money and weapons siphoned to private militias, according to a former Afghan intelligence officer, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Under the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who came to power after the death of longtime autocrat Islam Karimov in 2016, Uzbekistan intends to forge closer cooperation with neighboring Central Asian countries to solve all “vitally important issues,” Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said at the international conference, “Central Asia — A Major Priority Of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy”, held on August 11 in Tashkent.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Belarus and Kazakhstan can step up cooperation in the oil industry, IT sector, manufacturing, agriculture, and transport, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said on August 13 at the opening of the Belarus-Kazakhstan business forum which was held as part of the Made in Belarus exhibition in Astana, BelTA news agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Trade has been growing both between member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia — and between the bloc and third countries, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev said at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on August 14, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A temporary agreement on establishing a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) which comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia may be signed already this year.
