BISHKEK (TCA) — The EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador Peter Burian, is visiting Kyrgyzstan from 8 to 12 November. He is holding a regional conference on “Preventing Violent Extremism in Central Asia – Challenges and Responses at Community Level” in Bishkek. The event is organized as a follow-up to the High Level Political and Security Dialogue between EU and the Central Asian states in May and the EU–Central Asia ministerial meeting in Brussels in October 2016, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.

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ASTANA (TCA) — At a Kazakh-Japanese business forum in Tokyo on November 7, the two countries signed 13 agreements worth US $1.2 billion. The forum took place as part of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Japan, Sputnik news agency reports.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The Astana Military Court on November 7 sentenced Tokhtar Toleshov, a Kazakh businessman and the owner of Shymkent brewery, to 21 years in prison after he had been found guilty of extremism, illegal weapons possession, and attempting to overthrow the government, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — In the first nine months of 2016, Uzbekistan attracted $2.65 billion in foreign investments, 11.2 percent more than in the same period last year, the country’s official Jahon information agency reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan plans to create three new free economic zones in the Fergana, Samarkand, and Bukhara provinces, Uzbekistan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov said at the meeting of the prime ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member countries in Bishkek on November 3, the Jahon information agency reported.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s GDP grew 6.2 percent in the first ten months of 2016 according to reports presented on November 4 at the meeting of the Turkmen Cabinet of Ministers which reviewed the results of the country’s development in January-October 2016, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.

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