ASTANA (TCA) — As the Syria peace talks in Astana have given more international exposure to Kazakhstan as a player in the region wider than Central Asia, we are republishing this article by George Voloshin, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — From March 27 through April 7, the U.S. Department of Defense will conduct a training exercise in partnership with Tajik security forces, the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe said on March 20.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A new plant for production of plastic pipes for drip irrigation has officially opened in Ala-Buka village of Ala-Buka district in Jalal-Abad province in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
LONDON (TCA) — A prominent human rights activist has been forcibly subjected to psychiatric treatment in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On March 1, 2017 Yelena Urlayeva, the chairperson of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan (HRAU) was arrested by police, who called an emergency psychiatric ambulance which transported her to hospital.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The government of Turkmenistan is working on a draft concept for the establishment of free economic zones in the country until 2023, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani says that Russian officials have assured the Afghan government that contacts between Russia and the Taliban are aimed only at persuading the insurgent group to endorse peace talks with the Afghan government, TOLOnews agency reported on March 19.
