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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), a human rights research, reporting and advocacy organization, on July 3 called on China’s authorities to reveal the condition of Uyghurs disappeared after the 2009 unrest in Urumchi in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and meet international human rights standards on police detention.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Russian and Uzbekistan armed forces will hold the first joint military exercises since 2005 in Uzbekistan this autumn, Russian media reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The State Committee for Investments of Uzbekistan last week hosted a roundtable on “Actual issues of solving transport and logistics problems, developing strategic transport corridors and attracting foreign investment in this sphere”, the Jahon information agency reported.
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TEHRAN (TCA) — The French energy giant Total has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement with Iran on the development of an Iranian offshore natural-gas field — the first major Western energy investment since international sanctions were lifted against Tehran under its nuclear accord with world powers, RFE/RL reported on July 3.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Presidents of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Mohammad Ashraf Ghani held talks in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat on July 3.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Deputy Speaker of Jogorku Kenesh (Kyrgyzstan parliament) Altynai Omurbekova, Ambassador of Switzerland to the Kyrgyz Republic René Holenstein and Acting Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Aliona Niculita on June 30 signed a memorandum of understanding to support the consolidation of a strong and inclusive parliamentary democracy in Kyrgyzstan. The signing ceremony took place in Jogorku Kenesh with participation of members of parliament, management of the apparatus of Jogorku Kenesh as well as representatives from international donor community, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said on July 3.
