TCA
TASHKENT (TCA) — The trust of foreign investors in the banks of Uzbekistan will be strengthened and the latter’s credibility in the international financial markets will grow. To a large extent, this will be facilitated by the stable outlook awarded to them by Moody’s for the seventh time, Uzbekistan’s official Jahon information agency reports with reference to the rating agency.
TCA
ASTANA (TCA) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, the United Nations Development Programme, the Government of Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency on 19 August launched a pilot project of Kazakhstan’s ODA aimed at expanding economic independence and rights of Afghan women and entitled “Promoting Kazakhstan’s ODA Cooperation with Afghanistan”. The project will mark Kazakhstan’s first international cooperation for Afghanistan in the framework of national system of Official Development Assistance (ODA), while it helps Kazakhstan to strengthen its ability to administer its future ODA. The project is financed by the Government of Japan through the UNDP-Japan Partnership Fund, UNDP Kazakhstan reported.
Stratfor
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
EurasiaNet
DUSHANBE (TCA) — As Tajikistan, the poorest among Central Asian post-Soviet republics, badly needs investments, including foreign ones, to develop its economy, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
BISHKEK (TCA) — The month of August this year will mark a quarter century of so-called newly independent states following the implosion of the USSR. But transition to so-called market economy has not taken place as expected. The example of Kyrgyzstan, which is the first among post-Soviet Central Asian republics to mark its independence on August 31, demonstrates that the results are mixed.
TCA
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States Ambassador to Tajikistan, Elisabeth Millard, General-Lieutenant Rajabali Rahmonali of the Border Guard Forces of Tajikistan, and other U.S. and Tajik officials, attended the handover ceremony of $12 million dollars worth of U.S. equipment to Tajikistan’s Border Guard Agency on August 18. The United States government donated $9 million dollars of communication equipment and $3 million dollars of J8 Jeep Wranglers. This equipment was funded by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Counter-Narcotics Program and represents the United States’ continued commitment to counter the trafficking of illegal drugs in Tajikistan, the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan said.
