BISHKEK (TCA) — The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, and the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica met on October 4 in Brussels with the Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Erlan Idrissov, Kyrgyzstan, Erlan Abdyldaev, Tajikistan, Sirodjidin Aslov, Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, and Uzbekistan, Abdulaziz Kamilov, for the 12th European Union-Central Asia Ministerial Meeting.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on October 4 signed a three-year agreement to improve food security, nutrition and resilience to climate-related and economic shocks for more than 80,000 vulnerable people in four Kyrgyz provinces, the two organizations said in a joint news release.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — In the first half of this year, more than 163 thousand foreign tourists visited Tajikistan, spending almost US $82 million in the country, Avesta news agency reported citing Adkham Abdullozoda, the chairman of the Committee of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism of Tajikistan.

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ASTANA (TCA) — As a court in Astana on October 3 found Seitkazy Matayev, the head of the Kazakh Journalists Union, guilty of tax evasion and embezzlement and sentenced him to six years in prison, and his son, Aset, the director of the KazTAG news agency, was sentenced to five years on corruption charges, we are republishing this article by Aigerim Toleukhanova, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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ASTANA (TCA) — The average monthly salary in Kazakhstan increased by 15.6% year on year to KZT 143,600 in the 2nd quarter of 2016, while prices of goods and services increased by 16.8% with food prices increasing by 27.4%, Ranking.kz reports.

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