DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon on June 25 inaugurated a drinking water supply project that is expected to benefit 58 households, housing 354 people in disaster affected area of Ghudara village of Bartang valley, Rushan district, in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). The project that aims at improving access to safe drinking water and sanitation was implemented by Aga Khan Foundation and supported by the government of Finland, the Aga Khan Development Network said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament has approved a new structure of the Government, which will include two new committees while two ministries will be renamed.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Fund have signed a new grant in Turkmenistan to control tuberculosis (TB) by ensuring timely and universal access to quality diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant forms of TB, the UNDP Turkmenistan said on June 22.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tashkent on June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that India and Pakistan could join the SCO in 2017.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is heading to China to participate in the first Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and to sign a joint project, a reconstruction of a road in Tajikistan, one of the first ever AIIB projects.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — At the ceremony in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Turkmenistan have signed the Country Programme Action Plan for 2016-2020 (CPAP) and the arrangements for cost-sharing over the five year period, the UNDP Turkmenistan said on June 23.  

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