Today tension is growing in Central Asia in light of the upcoming withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, Uzbek President Islam Karimov said at a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana on Friday.
"Our countries' problems can be seen with the naked eye today...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed support for the efforts of the World Bank, aimed at providing assistance to Tajikistan in resolving the problems in the energy sector through using various alternative approaches, the UN News Centre said, CA-NEWS reported.
Ban Ki-moon has...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Uzbek government have agreed on a new five-year Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2012-2016, a press release of the bank said on Tuesday.
The new partnership strategy seeks to support inclusive economic growth through fostering a diversified...
Turkmenistan is interested in increasing energy exports to Tajikistan, as well as the import of agricultural and industrial products from Tajikistan, Turkmen Ambassador to Tajikistan Chinar Rustamova said at a briefing in Dushanbe on Monday, Avesta.Tj reported.
She said that in the first...
Tajikistan's permanent representative to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna (Austria) Ismatullo Nasriddinov met with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier to hand over credentials, Avesta.tj reported.
The Tajik Foreign Ministry told Avesta that after the...
The President of Turkmenistan during a working visit to Tehran received the head of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Madani, Altyn Asir national TV channel reported.
"The IDB head said that cooperation with Turkmenistan is an important priority for his...
The European Union (EU) supports the World Bank's efforts on the implementation of independent international expertise of constructing Rohun hydropower plant, Avesta.tj reported on Monday.
According to the report, the EU waits for the results of the expertise.
The organization...
Commonwealth of Independent States-focused HMS Group signed an $85 million contract with a Turkmen government ministry to construct water-pumping stations in the desert state, the company said Tuesday.
Under the terms of the contract, the company will build three water-pumping...
July was the hottest month on record in the U.S. and with it the price of maize jumped 23 percent. According to very rough estimate made in a blog from the Wall Street Journal, this means just $33 more at the register next year for the average U.S. grocery shopper. But it means much more for...
Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company in 2012 - 2013 will invest $ 385 million in projects to construct new LNG plants and reconstruct the existing ones, the company said.
According to the program developed by company experts, projects to increase the production of liquefied gas will be...
The production, transportation and transit of electric power, oil products, nonferrous metallurgy, transport telecommunications and textiles were referred to as the most important priorities of Turkmen-Tajik cooperation after the summit talks in Ashgabat. This was stated in a joint statement...
The Ministry of Finance of Tajikistan and an EU delegation announced the provision to Tajikistan of a tranche of $6.287.5 million euros in grant funds to support the budget, Avesta.Tj reports.
According to the EU delegation in Dushanbe, the provision of the means of payment in support of...
Currently harvesting is being carried out in all regions of Kazakhstan. the crops are removed from an area of 6.3 million hectares (41% of the harvest), harvested 4.7 million tons of grain with yield at 7.4 c / ha, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
Issues of providing the...
Turkmenistan is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of energy resources and having a great transit potential, is committed to the principles of diversification of international cooperation in the energy sphere, Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan Toyli Komekov said at a press...
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov chaired a working meeting with the heads of ministries and departments, as well as the regional administration, the Turkmen government said. The issues of seasonal agricultural work and in particular, the cotton harvest are on the agenda.
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International conference From banning nuclear tests to a world free of nuclear weapons will begin its work at the Palace of Independence in Astana on Wednesday.
More than 200 foreign visitors from more than 75 countries and more than 20 international organizations, including the UN and...
World Water Week 2012 is underway in Stockholm, Sweden, with a focus on the theme "Water and Food Security." The programme aims to engage participants on challenges posed by increased competition for water resources, driven in part by population growth and climate change, and its effects on...
For Jawaharlal Nehru, one of the founders of independent India, the need to solve the water and electricity needs of his gigantic country was so great that he called dams the “new temples of India.”
It was the postwar period, and newly independent countries in Asia and Africa — in many...
Atop the "roof of the world," one of the world's longest glaciers moves imperceptibly down the mountain. Called the Fedchenko Glacier, seen in this false-color image taken by the Landsat 5 satellite on Oct. 2, 2011, it is 47 miles (77 kilometers) long.
Drought in some parts of the world has hurt global grain production and contributed to food price spikes virtually every other year since 2007, highlighting the need to transform the way water is used - and wasted - throughout the entire food chain.
