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BISHKEK (TCA) — OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev on March 31 signed an agreement on extending the current operating modalities and academic independence of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — The dream of operating a railways system from China to Europe via Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan seems to have taken a detour since the present situation shows that with the exception of Kazakhstan, the other Central-Asian post-Soviet republics find themselves on the losing end of China’s rail expansion scheme – due to various “realities”. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — Today in Central Asia several banks bearing fancy names and based in fancy offices have multiplied in places like minor-size former Soviet republics with no economic achievement to speak of — all over among local banks from Dushanbe to Baku in the former USSR’s “soft belly” stretching from the Pamir to the Caucasus. In this regard, only Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have kept aloof from cash trouble up till now. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is also the chairman in office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), discussed bilateral ties and regional and international issues with Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev in Bishkek on March 31. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is also the chairman in office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), is visiting Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan from 29 March to 1 April and holding talks with the countries’ political leaders in all three capitals. Steinmeier is also meeting representatives of civil society in the Central Asian countries, the German Foreign Ministry said. Continue reading
