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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan plans to increase the export of food products by 40 percent by 2021 through diversification of agricultural production. In 2017, the agro food export is expected to grow 10 percent, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — During her working visit to Kazakhstan on February 9, Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Administrator, Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS and UN Commissioner-General in EXPO-2017, signed an agreement of participation of the UN in EXPO-2017 in Astana with Akhmetzhan Yessimov, chairman of Astana EXPO-2017 National Company JSC Board.
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KABUL (TCA) — General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, told the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on February 9 that Russia had significantly increased covert and overt support for the Taliban, with a goal of “undermining the United States and NATO,” RFE/RL reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A Kyrgyz lawmaker says Kyrgyzstan needs to build its own center of trans-boundary cooperation with China, similar to Kazakhstan’s Khorgos International Center of Trans-boundary Cooperation located on the Kazakh-Chinese border, KyrTAG information agency reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan has developed an integrated waste disposal program according to which the country will gradually abandon the burning and long-term storage of waste at landfills and introduce modern and environmentally friendly technologies of its separate collection and recycling, the Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan continues to withstand challenges related to lower oil prices and slower growth in Russia, China and Europe. The Kazakh authorities’ response—targeted fiscal support, exchange rate adjustment, strengthened domestic liquidity management, and structural reforms focusing on the business climate and public administration—has helped stabilize conditions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission said in a statement at the end of its official staff visit to Kazakhstan on February 8.
