DUSHANBE (TCA) — The European Union-funded project — Technical Assistance to Support Pension Reform in Tajikistan — was launched on May 19 in Dushanbe. The project will run over three years (until January 2020) and will provide support to the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP) in the areas of Information and Communications Technology, legal reform, actuarial projections, and training and capacity building for ASIP staff, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said.

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KABUL (TCA) — Entrepreneurs in Afghanistan can obtain a permit for setting up a business with relative ease, but they face considerable hurdles in other areas which are important for a firm to start up and operate, says the World Bank Group’s Subnational Doing Business in Afghanistan 2017 report, released this week.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — With China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative being in the focus of the global attention, India and Japan plan a quiet launch of their Asia-Africa connectivity project later this month, Sputnik news agency reports.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Belarus and Tajikistan will be expanding their agricultural cooperation. The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Belarus-Tajikistan intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation in Minsk on May 18, BelTA news agency reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — As long as the US and NATO retain their military presence in Afghanistan, the war and violence in that country will only continue. Such an opinion was expressed by Afghan political analyst Vahid Mozhadah in an interview with Sputnik Dari, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The key areas of activity of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry include the attraction of foreign investments to Kazakhstan, assistance to domestic exporters in promoting finished products in world markets, and assistance in implementation of industrial and innovative projects, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said at a press conference on May 18, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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