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ALMATY (TCA) — Representatives of 20 large South Korean companies came to Almaty to take part in a Kazakh-Korean business forum to discuss the possibilities of opening production facilities in Kazakhstan, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on April 25.
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ALMATY (TCA) — Representatives of governments, the United Nations, and technical experts from 13 countries across the Eurasia-Pacific region have gathered this week in Kazakhstan to share knowledge and discuss new financial solutions to protect and better manage biodiversity, United Nations Development Programme in Kazakhstan reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on April 25 that a U.S. allegation that Moscow is supplying arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan was unsubstantiated, RFE/RL reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — United Nations Children’s Fund on April 25 congratulated the Government of Turkmenistan for having been elected to the UNICEF Executive Board for the period 2018-2020 and to the Commission on Status of Women for four years. The decision was announced at the meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 19 April 2017.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Despite Uzbekistan’s government’s measures to expand the production of localized import-substituting products, the country has seen the unreasonable growth in imports, which leads to inefficient use of foreign currency resources that could be directed at projects aimed at further expansion of domestic production and creation of new jobs. This was said at the April 19 video-intercom meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, which discussed strengthening of the personal responsibility of officials at all levels for optimizing the volume and structure of imports by deepening the localization of the production and increasing exports, the Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Construction works at a new railway station of Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, will be completed on May 15 and it will be launched on June 1, before the opening of the international exhibition EXPO-2017 in Astana this summer, the press service of Kazakhstan’s national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said.
