BISHKEK (TCA) — The University of Central Asia’s Institute of Public Policy and Administration (UCA IPPA) celebrated the first graduates of its Certificate Programme in Mining Policy and Sustainable Development on December 19. The eight-week executive programme for civil servants, experts, and civil society representatives involved in extractive industries aimed to develop a pool of informed professionals who can improve the quality of public discussion within the mining sector, the UCA said.

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TEHRAN (TCA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is to pay visits to Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan this week to discuss ways of improving mutual relations, Iran’s PressTV news agency reports.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzagroexport Company, Uzbekistan’s only operator supplying fruit and vegetables to abroad, has recently opened a new trading house in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana in partnership with Kazakh partners, the Jahon information agency reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Government of Uzbekistan on December 16 posted for public discussion a draft decree on a special foreign-currency regime in the country’s free economic zones (FEZs), Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reports.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — December 19 saw the official ceremony to launch the second phase of the project to reconstruct motor roads in the Tajik cities of Kurgan-Tyube and Kulob, Avesta news agency reported.

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