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TASHKENT (TCA) — Members of the European Parliament backed a textiles trade deal with Uzbekistan on December 14, acknowledging the country’s efforts to eradicate child labour. But they also urged the country to take further steps to end all other forms of forced labour, e.g. by students and civil servants, in its cotton harvest, the European Parliament said in a press release.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The National Bank of Tajikistan is considering the use of the country’s President Emomali Rahmon’s portrait on a proposed new 1,000-somoni banknote, which would be worth about $127, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — A Conference of the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan, the country’s dominant party, has nominated incumbent President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov as its candidate in the country’s presidential election scheduled for February 12, 2017, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Union on December 12 transferred a grant for EUR 10 million to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic as budget support for the country’s education sector, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — As part of the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Kazakhstan on December 14, Astana hosted a Kazakhstan-Israel business forum organized by the Ministry for Investment and Development of Kazakhstan and national export and investment agency KAZNEX INVEST with the support of the Embassy of Israel in Kazakhstan, the ministry reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Astana on December 14. The two leaders discussed economic, trade and medical cooperation, and signed documents related to visa-free travel, aviation communications, and agricultural cooperation.
