BISHKEK (TCA) — United States Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic Sheila Gwaltney on June 14 attended the opening ceremony of a vegetable consolidation center in Aravan in the south of Kyrgyzstan that will directly benefit thousands of farmers in the south of the country. This Aravan-based facility is a result of a partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the private entrepreneur Mr. Avaz Abdurahimov. The consolidation center is one of the largest in the south and can sort, clean, and package around 24,000 tons of vegetables per year, the US Embassy in Bishkek reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Wencai Zhang, on a 4-day visit to Kazakhstan, has held talks with senior officials of the Government of Kazakhstan about ADB’s new 2017-21 Country Partnership Strategy. Mr. Zhang has also attended several sessions of the Astana Economic Forum on regional cooperation and integration, and Kazakhstan’s development perspectives. On 15 June, he co-chaired the brainstorming session on the new Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) 2030 Strategy, ADB’s country office in Kazakhstan said.

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ALMATY (TCA) — The most crisis-prone spheres of the economy were discussed by businesspeople of the two countries at the business forum “Almaty-Luxembourg”, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on June 15.

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ASTANA (TCA) — At the presentation of the World Bank’s report on systemic diagnostics of the country in the light of the 25th anniversary of cooperation between Kazakhstan and the World Bank, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev addressed the participants of the Astana Economic Forum that opened on June 15 in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank on June 15 announced the signing of the sale and purchase agreements with Mr. Kenges Rakishev to acquire 86.09% of ordinary shares of JSC Kazkommertsbank for a consideration of 1 Kazakhstan tenge, and separately with JSC Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna to acquire 10.72% of ordinary shares of Kazkommertsbank also for a consideration of 1 Kazakhstan tenge.

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