ASHGABAT (TCA) — The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) is marking its tenth anniversary as an entity working on a mandate focused on preventive diplomacy. The Centre, located in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat, was established at the initiative of five Central Asian states by exchange of letters between the UN Secretary General and the President of the Security Council on 16 May 2007. In a region increasingly confronted with challenges and threats, UNRCCA has deployed preventive efforts to promote regional cooperation and assist Central Asian states to find mutually acceptable and beneficial solutions to these regional challenges, UNRCCA said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The State Property Management Fund under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic (SPMF) intends to reduce part of the non-operating enterprises with the state share by uniting them into a National Holding open joint-stock company.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — From 16 to 18 May, a meeting of the Regional Working Group including representatives from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will take place in Khujand, Tajikistan with the goal to develop the Explanatory Brochure in accordance with the UNECE Standard DDP-15 concerning marketing and commercial quality control of dried apricots produced in the Fergana Valley, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Sirojidin Aslov has defended his country’s huge Rogun hydroelectric power plant project, which has been questioned by neighboring Uzbekistan for years, RFE/RL reported.

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ALMATY (TCA) — A special economic zone with tax privileges will soon be created in the Kazakh part of the Khorgos International Centre of Boundary Cooperation (ICBC) located on the Kazakh-Chinese border in the Almaty province, ICBC Khorgos President Kaharman Jazin said at the Forum of Entrepreneurs held at Khorgos last week, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Since China’s new Silk Road initiative was announced in 2013, the project has been “vague and unclear” in terms of concrete projects and the number of countries involved, Sputnik news agency reported citing a research by the French Institute of International Relations.

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