Central Asia

William Joseph Burns, the United States Under Secretary for Political Affairs will visit Kyrgyzstan this Saturday, on June 11th, 2009.

Personnel changes were made in Uzbek government on July 9.

The construction of the first phase of a unique hydraulic facility - Turkmen lake "Altyn Asyr" finished in the middle of the Karakum desert. Turkmen builders completed the construction of trenches - two manmade rivers running for over thousands of kilometers.

More than 1,000 Kazakh citizens left Xinjiang, where inter-ethnic clashes are ongoing, the spokesman of the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Kyrgyzstan evacuates its citizens from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, press service of the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry reported.

Construction of fiber-optic network FTTB ("Fiber to the building") in Zarafshan town (Navoi region) was finished.

Minister of Education of Turkmenistan Muhammetgeldi Annaamanov was dismissed for serious shortcomings in work.

The delegation led by William J.Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, will visit Kazahkstan on July 9-10, the spokesman of the Kazakh Foreign Minsitry said on Tuesday.

Global Enabling Trade Report 2009, by the Economic Forum lists Kyrgyzstan among 20 most accessible markets of the world.

Solar batteries transforming energy from the sun were established in village school of Payaryk district of Samarkand region. This is the first time of using alternative power sources in Uzbek schools.