ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is joining a strategic program to significantly upgrade irrigation systems in Kazakhstan with a US $180 million financing package. Loan agreements were signed during the Bank’s Annual Meeting in Cyprus by EBRD First Vice President, Phil Bennett, and the Minister of Economic Affairs and Budget Planning of Kazakhstan, Bakhyt Sultanov, the EBRD said on May 10.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — On May 10, Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon visited Rogun city to inspect construction works at the Rogun hydropower plant (HPP) on the Vakhsh River, the president’s press service said. Once completed, the Rogun HPP dam would be the world’s tallest and should give Tajikistan a stable power supply.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Today, May 11, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will start a state visit to China, which will finish on May 13. After the visit, the Uzbek leader will also participate in the international forum “One Belt, One Road” in Beijing on May 14-15, the Jahon information agency reports.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States is looking to its NATO allies to determine how many additional troops are going to be sent to Afghanistan, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.

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TEHRAN (TCA) — Iran has prepared documents to file a lawsuit with the International Court of Arbitration against Turkmenistan for its failure to supply natural gas to the Islamic Republic last winter, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reports with reference to the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC).

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BISHKEK (TCA) — As migrant-phobia sentiments are on the rise in Russia towards labor immigrants from Central Asian countries, including Kyrgyzstan, we are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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