ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan will be able to increase oil supplies to China almost threefold. The two countries have also agreed on Kazakh food export to China and construction of joint production facilities in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a September 5 briefing on the results of his visit to China where he took part in the G20 summit in Hangzhou and had meetings with the Chinese leadership and business companies, the president’s press service reported.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of Tajikistan’s banned Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT), has been added to Interpol’s wanted list on the request from Tajikistan’s authorities.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee says a group of radical Islamists that was arrested in recent weeks in the southern region of Almaty planned to hijack a plane and conduct “a 9/11-like” attack, RFE/RL reports.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Speaking at the G20 summit in China’s Hangzhou on September 4, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested establishing a Global economic regulator by transforming the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) into a Global Development Council, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reports with reference to Nazarbayev’s press service.   

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) says it has opened a credit line of US $5 million to Halyk Bank Kyrgyzstan OJSC. The agreement was signed on 2 September by Dmitry Ladikov-Roev, Managing Director, Asset and Liability Management, EDB, and Kastoru Mamytova, Board Chairman, Halyk Bank Kyrgyzstan.

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