The World Bank’s new Education Strategy, Learning for All, invites us to invest early, invest smartly, and invest for all. It proposes fostering a comprehensive view of education – a systems approach strengthened by a knowledge base on what works to improve education systems that can be shared...
High-level talks between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, who arrived in the Turkmen capital on an official visit will be held on Thursday in Asg\hgabat.
The talks will discuss a wide range of bilateral and regional...
Almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030 and strategists from Israel to Central Asia prepare for strife. The author Mark Twain once remarked the "whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over" and a series of reports from intelligence agencies and research groups indicate...
As a rugged branch of the fabled Silk Road, the Wakhan Valley in the Pamir Mountains has long existed at the intersection of routes that once served nomads, peddlers and pilgrims. This slice of Central Asia hosts rich biodiversity and remote societies that are dependent upon the mountainous...
Uzbekenergo State Joint Stock Company in early 2013 will begin modernizing the metering system of electricity in the domestic sector of Uzbekistan, Uzbekenergo chairman Batyr Teshabaev said on Tuesday during an international seminar in Tashkent.
According to the Uzbekenergo, a project...
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The US has backed multi-billion TAPI pipeline project to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan to India, with a top official saying that the pipeline would support the energy independence of the countries in the region.
Uzbekistan plans to attract an Islamic Development Bank (IDB) loan to the sum of $60 million for the modernisation of irrigation systems in the Khorezm region (north-west), a source in government circles told Trend on Thursday.
He noted that at the present time, the government of...
Tensions and outbreaks of violence between neighbouring villages in the border area between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan arise over unequal access to land and water, disputed borders and historical prejudices. There is also distrust and tension between communities, local authorities and...
Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyayev prohibited the use of child labor in cotton harvesting by his order, a source in the country's government told Trend.Az on Tuesday.
According to the agency, the government directive banning involvement of schoolchildren in cotton harvesting...
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov chastised media outlets for scaremongering Wednesday and said that Kyrgyzstan’s power authorities had no intention of imposing electricity blackouts or raising rates.
Babanov expressed those comments in an attempt to calm public fears partly stirred...
The US- and ADB-sponsored Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is as much about the political stability of Afghanistan as it is about energy security for the partner countries. Yet, it continues to evoke scepticism among analysts. Much of this scepticism hinged on...
9 August 2012 – The Security Council has voiced its support for the role that preventive diplomacy and early warning mechanisms play in settling disputes peacefully, and praised the work carried out by a United Nations centre in Central Asia to strengthen this practice in the region.
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) welcomed a decision of the Turkmen Parliament to join the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, UN News Centre said in its press release.
The document was adopted by the Majlis...
The United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action "Water for Life" 2005-2015/UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) and the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) are pleased to announce the opening of the 3rd edition of the 'Water for Life...
Kyrgyzstan will hold talks with its partners in the Central Asian United Energy System (UES) Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Deputy Prime Minister Aaly Karashev said on 26 July 2012.
Tensions have flared over the UES, as Uzbekistan siphoned off more electricity from the grid than it paid for....
The size of the Aral Sea has long hinged on the Amu Darya, which flows from the high Pamir Mountains in central Asia, across the desert, and into the southern sea. While two rivers empty into the lake—the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya—the Amu Darya is the largest and most fickle source of water....
On 4 August 2012, the Parliament of Turkmenistan voted for the country’s accession to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention). Turkmenistan will become the thirty-ninth...
Turkmenistan has developed a plan to combat desertification and revive the Aral Sea coastal areas, according to Turkmenistan.ru, a website used by the country's government to disseminate information in Russia.
The project will involve creating a green zone in the Botendag hillside in...
