BISHKEK (TCA) — Pedestrian safety is becoming a major issue in Kyrgyzstan today. Just now, a few minutes ago before I started to write this article I nearly fell victim to a traffic accident myself: as I started to cross the road at an intersection a car driven at high speed drove through a red light, almost hit me and continued driving as if nothing had happened at all. What seems to be a very serious road traffic offense is now becoming a regular thing on Kyrgyz roads.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan has announced the launch of a new project to support human rights in Tajikistan.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on July 5 said that security forces from Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and the U.S., as well as observers from Kazakhstan, will conduct the multinational annual Regional Cooperation (RC) 2017 command-post exercise in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from July 10 to 23, 2017.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in Tajikistan on a two-day official visit on July 5, held talks with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov has said his country has no plans to rejoin the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — a post-Soviet security alliance of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, which means that Uzbekistan’s policy towards the Russia-led bloc would remain the same despite a leadership change in Tashkent.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s authorities say that four close relatives of a former police commander who joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in 2015 have been killed in a clash with security forces, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.

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