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ASHGABAT (TCA) — During his visit to the State of Qatar on March 15, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov spoke for increasing bilateral trade and services between the two countries, official Turkmen media reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has approved a Comprehensive Development Program for Muynak District of Karakalpakstan Autonomous Region for 2017-2018, the Jahon information agency reported. During two years, the program plans to implement 72 projects in industry, services and agricultural processing in the district located in the area of the shrinking Aral Sea.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Many state-owned enterprises in Kyrgyzstan are loss-making, get annual subsidies from the state budget, and continue to be used as an instrument for organization of corruption schemes, Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov said at a Government meeting on March 14, the governmental press service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan has officially charged Aida Salyanova, a former prosecutor-general and now an opposition lawmaker, with abuse of office. She has been ordered not to leave the country pending the investigation of her case, 24.kg news agency reported with reference to Salyanova’s lawyer Ulan Jumakov.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), headed by President Suma Chakrabarti, will visit Uzbekistan on 15-17 March to discuss with the Uzbek authorities ways of increasing EBRD engagement with the country. The Bank has worked in Uzbekistan since 1993 and has a portfolio of investments there but since 2010 there have been no fresh operations, the EBRD press office said.
EurasiaNet
BISHKEK (TCA) — The US has already paid little attention to Central Asia in recent years, and under the Trump administration, Washington’s political, and economic, interest and influence in the region may even diminish. Here below we are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
