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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The World Bank has launched a consultation process with key stakeholders in Tajikistan on the Country Partnership Framework for 2019-2022. In this context, the World Bank’s Regional Director for Central Asia, Lilia Burunciuc, and the newly appointed World Bank Country Manager for Tajikistan, Jan-Peter Olters, on May 17 met with the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, to discuss medium-term development opportunities, constraints, and priorities for the country, the World Bank said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Advisers to US President Donald Trump have worked out and proposed a new plan that could significantly change the situation in Afghanistan and expand the military activities against militants, Sputnik news agency reports citing US media. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the new US administration is yet to determine its strategy in Central Asia and Afghanistan, we are republishing this article by S. Frederick Starr, the chairman of the Central Asia Caucasus Institute at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, originally published by The American Interest: Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The US has already paid little attention to Central Asia in recent years, and under the Trump administration, Washington’s political, and economic, interest and influence in the region may even diminish. Here below we are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan is taking a new step towards the equality of opportunity for women and men with a new national strategic approach: the “Concept for Family and Gender Policy in Kazakhstan until 2030”. The new approach and a coordinating action plan was discussed in Astana on 10 February at the national forum “Empowerment of women in the corporate sector”. The secretary of state, government ministers, representatives of international organisations, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and entrepreneurs discussed ways of enhancing women’s economic opportunities and realising women’s potential at work, EBRD’s press office reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The Kazakh Government meeting on January 31 discussed implementation of the instructions given by President Nursultan Nazarbayev in his annual address to the nation earlier on the same day, in which he outlined the main priorities of the country's economic development for the near future, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
