BISHKEK (TCA) — The project “Strengthen Prevention and Combating of Corruption in the Kyrgyz Republic” will be officially launched in Bishkek on March 9 with the participation of the Council of Europe and prominent representatives of the main beneficiary institutions in Kyrgyzstan. On this occasion, the project will be introduced to the stakeholders, including government institutions and civil society, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — On March 7, Bishkek hosted a regular meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, during which prime ministers of Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia — discussed expansion of mutual trade between the EEU member countries.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — On the second day of his two-day visit to Turkmenistan on March 7, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov opened a new motor and railway bridge across the Amu Darya River at Turkmenabat.

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ALMATY (TCA) — The volume of transit and import/export freight traffic through the Kazakh-Chinese railway crossings Dostyk-Alashankou and Altynkol-Khorgos will be increased by 33 percent in 2017, Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is launching a new program in Uzbekistan in order to help cotton farmers improve their production efficiency, safeguard the environment, and improve labor practices. This program is part of an effort by IFC to accelerate Uzbekistan’s economic growth by modernizing one of the country’s most important industries, IFC said on March 3.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — On the first day of his two-day official visit to Turkmenistan on March 6, Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. The presidents agreed on closer cooperation on energy and transportation projects, and signed a treaty on strategic cooperation between their countries.  

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