Central Asia

The inauguration of new facilities of the textile industry - the country's first plant for production of medical and cosmetic cotton wool, as well as new Fashion House and two shopping centers "Ak pamyk" was held in Ashgabat on 29 June.

Kazakhstan together with China will construct Nurabad hydroelectric station-1 in the east of Tajikistan, Kazakh ambassador in Tajikistan Abutalip Akhmetov reported.

Chinese investments will promote Uzbek energetics. A number of joint projects are realized for development of power energetics in particular.

Election commissions to serve the upcoming presidential election in Kyrgyzstan will predominantly consist of women, Damir Lisovsky, director of the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission told reporters Tuesday.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov went on his first official visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He is expected to hold talks with Jordanian King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein.

Volume of vegetables export through Xinjiang-Uigur autonomous region (North-Western China) to neighboring Central Asian countries reached 23 thousand tons with a value of about US $10 million in January-May 2009.

New civil passports, containing electronic information medium about personal biometric parameters of their owners and having high protection level, will be introduced in Uzbekistan.

Kadyrbek Sarbaev, the Kyrgyz Minister for Foreign Affairs says the transit traffic center in Manas airport (Kyrgyzstan) will cost the U.S. up to $60 million per year.

A new comfortable dwelling house for the water industry staff and a three-storey kindergarten were inaugurated in the Turkmen capital on 22 June.

Kyrgyzstan and the United States have agreed on opening the transit traffic centre at the international airport Manas, sources in the Kyrgyz government informed the news agency 24.kg Tuesday, June 23.