BISHKEK (TCA) — On February 15 Moscow hosted consultations on Afghanistan with the participation of senior officials from six nations — Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Iran, and India. The meeting participants agreed to increase efforts to assist in the promotion of intra-Afghan reconciliation with official Kabul playing the leading role and integration of the armed opposition into peaceful life, the Russian Foreign Ministry said after the meeting.      

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan is to hold the next presidential election on November 19, 2017. The date was indicated during President Almazbek Atambayev’s meeting with the head of the country’s Central Election Commission on February 15, Atambayev’s press service said.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The new President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, is expected to pay a state visit to Kazakhstan in the first half of 2017, but Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper has reported that Mirziyoyev may first meet with his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, in Turkmenistan.  

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A new report by the World Bank highlights Tajikistan’s need to prioritize job creation in order to achieve its development objectives and reduce poverty. The report, Tajikistan Jobs Diagnostic: Strategic Framework for Jobs, analyzes the main challenges the country faces in creating jobs and sets out policy recommendations to enable the creation of more and better jobs that are also more inclusive of women and youth, the World Bank said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — During the past 25 years Switzerland has provided more than CHF 350 million of financial, technical and humanitarian support to Kyrgyzstan in the sectors of health, public institutions, private sector, urban water supply, irrigation, local self-governance and civil society engagement, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said as the two countries marked the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations on February 14, 2017.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The parliamentary faction of Respublika—Ata-Jurt party on February 14 nominated its leader Omurbek Babanov as its candidate in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election scheduled for this fall.

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