Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are in early stages of negotiations to provide Tajikistan with gas supplies this year, an Uzbek official said on Tuesday.
“Negotiations on signing a new contract are still at the stage of correspondence," the 12.uz news agency reported a representative of the...
Russian hydrocarbons giant Lukoil said Friday its unit in Uzbekistan will fortify efforts to achieve a more than four-fold increase in gas production there by 2018. The energy firm will launch its active phase of Uzbek projects next year, the head of the overseas division said.
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In 2012 "Uzbekenergo" carried out implementation of 38 large investment projects on modernization and reconstruction of system of production and transport of electricity, the company reported.
In particular, implementation of the project on reconstruction of the 220 kV "Kuyu Mazar"...
Turkmenistan's declaration as being a 'permanent neutrality', recognised and supported by the UN General Assembly, became a valuable contribution to peace and security in Central Asia, the message of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said...
Electricity supplies will be restricted in Kyrgyzstan following an accident at Toktogul HPP on Thursday, Deputy General Director of the Kyrgyz National Electric Grid Alexei Borodin told 24.kg.
According to Borodin, electricity supplies in such a case should not be cut for more than two...
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - The sale of state-operated energy transportation company Kyrgyzgaz may be finalized within the next three months, its deputy director said Thursday.
“If negotiations with Gazprom end positively, Kyrgyzgas will be privatized in three months,” the Bishkek-...
Access to a clean drinking water and drainage still remains one of the most critical environmental problems in Tajikistan. Thus, only 5% of population live in the buildings connected to drainage network. Tajikistan also encounters problems in waste treatment, according to the report of the...
The flurry of regional diplomatic activity in recent months has demonstrated that Central Asia’s two main states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, are finally taking concrete steps in response to the failure of regional security institutions in Central Asia, and in the direction of working jointly to...
Uzbekistan will receive $82 million in IDA credits from the World Bank to improve its public water supply, the bank said on Thursday. IDA credits are loans from the bank’s International Development Association. The money will be used to improve public water systems in the Bukhara region,...
A two-day meeting of the special working group at the level of deputy foreign ministers of the Caspian littoral states on the development of a draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea starts in Ashgabat, an official Turkmen source said on Monday.
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit Uzbekistan in 2013. Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Krymbek Kusherbaev made this statement at the 12th meeting of the Uzbek-Kazakh intergovernmental commission on bilateral cooperation, held on Thursday in Tashkent.
He also said that...
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will sign an agreement on the joint use and protection of trans-boundary water bodies in 2013, the Agriculture and Water Resources Ministry of Uzbekistan told Trend on Friday.
According to the Uzbek Agriculture Ministry, an agreement on the preparation of the...
Only Kazakhstan from all the countries in Central Asia, is one of the member of Customs Union, but, nevertheless, it is a very important factor that will facilitate trade, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Kazakhstan Timur Zhaksylykov said in Astana at the consecration...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has completed its Irrigation Rehabilitation Project in Tajikistan, which was designed to improve agricultural productivity, incomes, and access to clean water for rural communities, press release issued by the ADB Tajikistan Resident Mission (TJRM) said.
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Acting Minister for the Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources Kakageldy Abdyllaev has arrived in Warsaw (Poland) to attend the 23rd Energy Charter Conference, an official Turkmen source said on Monday.
The event which runs until November 28 has the theme 'Requests for global energy...
A 10-day training program on climate change and water resource is organized in Kabul by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Representatives from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Maldives are attending the program.
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Electricity consumption in Kyrgyzstan increased by 15 percent in 2012, KyrTAG reported on Friday with reference to the country's Energy and Industry Minister Avtandil Kalmambetov.
Kalmambetov made the statement during his conversation with the country's President Almazbek Atambayev....
The fourth meeting of the Steering Committee of the European Union (EU) Water Initiative’s National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resource Management (NPD IWRM) in Tajikistan, for which the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is the strategic partner, took place on 15...
Experts from Central Asian states and Afghanistan, as well as representatives of the UN agencies and regional organizations are gathered in Ashgabat on from 19-20 November to discuss the application of the scenario approach to integrated water management in Central Asia.
This is considered...
The sale of Rogun HEP shares has been stopped: not a single company share has been sold in 2012, Asia Plus reported on 19 November citing Tajikistan’s Ministry of Finance.
After consolidating the company’s inventory, which is held in the eight Tajik banks which were attempting to sell the...
