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BISHKEK (TCA) — Cooperation between Russia and Pakistan is important to insure stability and security in Central Asia, Pakistan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tasnim Aslam told Sputnik news agency following her visit to Moscow, where on April 14 she participated in the fifth multinational Afghanistan peace conference.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Expansion of regional cooperation in the railway transport is in the focus of the two-day Economic Cooperation Organization’s railway authorities meeting that opened in Baku, Azerbaijan on April 17 with the participation of representatives from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan and Iran.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Bishkek on April 17 sentenced several Kyrgyzstan opposition members to prison terms varying from four to 20 years for plotting a coup.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Following relative economic stabilization in 2016, Eurasian Development Bank’s member countries — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan — are entering the phase where inflation will go down significantly and key rates will be reduced gradually. This is expected to create more favorable conditions for the recovery of positive economic dynamics in the region, according to the findings of The Macroeconomic Review prepared by the Chief Economist Group at EDB.
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KABUL (TCA) — Czech business people are interested in investing in more than 100 projects in Afghanistan and have submitted their investment plans to the Afghan government, Afghanistan’s TOLOnews agency reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is pushing ahead with his plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2025, Turkmen state media reported.
