Central Asia

Turkish Polimeks company will build a winter sports complex for 10 thousand seats and a sport school of Olympic reserve at the cross of Ataturk and Oguz Khan streets in Ashgabat.

Iran is interested in implementation of joint investment projects in Kazakhstan in agriculture, transport and energy sectors, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.

A conference on the involvement of non-state electronic mass media in building civil society was held in Tashkent.

About 25-30 percent of coal mining in Kyrgyzstan remains in shadow, director of the Kyrgyz State Agency on Geology and Mineral Resources Kapar Kurmanaliev informed the meeting of the Fuel, Energy Complex and Subsurface Management Committee on Tuesday, April 7.

Nearly 80% of old banknotes and coins have been removed from circulation in Turkmenistan.

“International organizations report there are up to 10 thousand homeless children in Kyrgyzstan,” the vice prime minister Uktomhan Abdullaeva said at the session of parliamentary Committee on Youth, Gender Policy, Physical Culture and Sport.

A Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan may start working in January 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes.

Traditionally, sowing campaign begins with seminars that are held for last several years in Ellikkalin district in the south of Karakalpakistan.

New modern sport complexes each worth US $ 20 million were inaugurated in Lebap and Mary provinces of Turkmenistan on 5 April.

The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Knut Vollebaek, urged the countries of Central Asia on April 3 to expand the use of bilingual and multilingual education.