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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has handed his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, more sweeping powers, according to a presidential decree published on October 21, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — A new Chinese-Kazakh cement plant with designed daily production capacity of 2,500 tons of clinker cement was officially put into operation last Friday in southwest Kazakhstan’s Kyzylorda region, Xinhua news agency reported.
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SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan (TCA) — The Kazakhstan-Czech Business Forum was held in Shymkent, south Kazakhstan as part of the official visit of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Radek Vondracek to Kazakhstan last week, Kazakh Invest national investment promotion company reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A cement plant was commissioned this year in Jarkurgan district of Uzbekistan’s Surkhandarya region by the foreign enterprise Surkhoncementinvest. Modern equipment from Germany, Austria, Russia and China has been installed there, the press service of the president of Uzbekistan reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The first high-level meeting on economic cooperation between Kazakhstan and the United States took place on October 18 in Washington. Co-chair of the commission from the Kazakh side was Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sultanov, from the American side – US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry reported.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will locate a new regional technical assistance center (RTAC) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Ms. Carla Grasso, Deputy Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer of the IMF, said on October 18. The center will provide capacity development services to nine member countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia (CCAM) region. Work is expected to cover fiscal policy, central bank operations, financial sector supervision, and macroeconomic statistics. CCAM RTAC is expected to begin operations in about one year, the IMF said.
