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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s Prosecutor-General’s Office says Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of the late longtime President Islam Karimov, is in custody following a 2015 conviction and faces additional charges in a continuing investigation, RFE/RL reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — In the beginning of 2019, Uzbekistan is to launch the production of ambulance cars based on France’s Peugeot Citroen technologies, the Jahon information agency reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — American business coach Carolyn Fueil arrived in Kazakhstan to hold a workshop for the Council of Businesswomen of Astana to give recommendations to local women entrepreneurs on how to conduct their business properly and on developing leadership skills, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on July 26.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on July 27 that the India-China developmental partnership is not only beneficial for the two countries but for the whole region, and that India would like to strengthen this partnership based on the Astana consensus between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana earlier this year, Sputnik news agency reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The government of Chile is ready to start negotiations on a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), an international organization comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, which encourages regional economic integration through the free movement of goods, services, and people within the union, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — On July 26, Tajikistan co-hosted a meeting of the C5+1 Security Working Group with representatives from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the United States in Dushanbe. R. Carl Paschall, Deputy Coordinator for Operations Policy and Military Coordination of the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism, led the U.S. delegation with the participation of U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Elisabeth Millard. The group discussed regional cooperation in counterterrorism and the threat of Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Central Asia, the US Embassy in Dushanbe reported.
