BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s mining industry has been deteriorating for years and the situation has become critical but the government has not paid much attention to it. For more than 20 years since independence, the industry’s management capacity has been worsening, members of the Association of Miners and Geologists of Kyrgyzstan said at a press conference in Bishkek.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — A new fund to deal with the legacy of Soviet-era uranium mining and processing in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan had its inaugural assembly meeting at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on July 21, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Entry into the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) would be advantageous for Tajikistan but the country is not yet ready for such format of cooperation, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Gennady Chufrin, a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.   

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TASHKENT (TCA) — China’s Xinjiang Silu Changlong Investment Co., Ltd is planning to establish a modern trade and logistics center for production, processing and export of agricultural products in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara province. That was announced during the 1st International Fruit and Vegetable Fair which was held in Tashkent last week, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported.  

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ASTANA (TCA) — Benefits, profitable projects, a good location, and free niches make Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector and food industry attractive for foreign investments, says the Managing Director of Kazakhstan’s investment and export promotion agency KAZNEX INVEST Erlan Muratov.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s national agricultural holding KazAgro until the end of 2016 will set up an Agricultural Investment Fund aimed at intensifying the attraction of direct investments in the country’s agro-industrial sector.

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