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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said he will delegate some of his sweeping powers to Parliament and to Government as he transforms his own leadership into a role he described as “supreme arbiter”, RFE/RL reports.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Is Astana going to become a regular meeting point for squabbling parties in troubled corners of the world, shooting it out at home but inclined to compromise to spare lives and economies? The results of the talks on the situation in Syria, which ended with mostly a confirmation of the status quo excluding any outlook of a longer-term political situation in Syria, are an ambiguous indication of such a prospect. UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura was quoted as stating: “Kazakhstan, under the leadership of President (Nursultan) Nazarbayev, has provided a remarkable contribution to our efforts to push for peace in Syria.”
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Without ensuring lower inflation, securing trust for the national currencies, decreasing dollarization, and devising responsible fiscal policies, any further efforts to coordinate monetary policies in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will be inefficient, a new study says.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Half of all foreign investments used in Uzbekistan in 2016 went to the country’s oil and gas industry and energy sector, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investment and Trade of Uzbekistan.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan needs to increase the export of its coal to the Chinese market, First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin said during the Government meeting on January 24, which discussed the development of the country’s coal and chemical industry, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A Kyrgyz court in Bishkek on January 24 upheld the 2010 guilty verdict and life imprisonment sentence against ethnic Uzbek rights activist Azimjan Askarov.
