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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan is interested in cooperation with China in the spheres of industry and agro-processing, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Organic food can become a priority export niche for Kazakhstan, the country’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev said, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The work of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) has been criticized not only by MPs and businessmen but also by President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev. If the RKDF does not work in the coming months, it would be necessary to make staff decisions, Atambayev said at a recent news conference. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Production in Turkmenistan grew 4.8 percent in 2015 as compared with the previous year, with high performance indicators observed in nearly all sectors of the country’s economy. This was said at the Turkmen Government meeting on January 8 that reviewed Turkmenistan’s economic results of 2015, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported. The meeting was chaired by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Defending the frontier with Afghanistan has become top priority for the three former Soviet republics bordering it in 2015. Whether that frontier could become a frontline or not depends on how much the other two are ready to contribute and how much stability they can maintain to do so. For Kyrgyzstan, the year 2015 is most likely to go into history as the year of the new revolution that never happened and the remarkable survival and strengthening of its parliamentary rule. It was, remarkably, much due to the personal input of President Atambayev, who is behind the party that has the largest faction in both the previous and the new parliament, that dark prophecies of “destabilisation” and “economic failure” failed to materialize, making Kyrgyzstan’s model go in the direction of the French than e.g. of the British one. Given the geopolitical and economic challenges in the region, this may well be a favourable option. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The government of Kazakhstan has approved a list of state companies to be offered for privatization, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported with reference to the country’s Ministry of National Economy. Continue reading
