A group of farmers from Karaganda region departed for Canada on study tour, reported Kazinform. This tour is organized by the World Bank Group under Drylands Management Project.
Today, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov received President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers, who arrived in Turkmenistan yesterday. The two presidents signed a bilateral declaration in the end of the meeting.
“Some 150 residents of the village of Nura flattened by an earthquake are taken to hospital with various injures, while 74 are killed,†the Kyrgyz Ministry for Emergency Situations clarified.
Kazakhstan will extract 15,400 tons of uranium per year by 2010. Marat Tazhin Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan informed about this plans in Washington in Carnegie Fund, reported Kazakhstan Today with the reference on the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
Valdis Zatlers, the president of Latvia arrived to the capital of Turkmenistan with the first official visit, informed Turkmenistan State Information Agency (THD). Meeting of Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and Valdis Zatlers took place in the Presidential Palace on October 7, 2008.
Association "Uzpahtasanoat" prepares to conduct IV International Uzbekistan cotton fair on high level, reception of cotton harvest. Enterprises of this association prepare cotton to preliminary processing and further storage. They help to cotton growers (in preparing seeds, transporting harvest to reception stations).
Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Emergency Situations reported about casualties of the 8 magnitude earthquake that struck southern Kyrgyzstan Sunday night near the Chinese and Tajik borders.
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev on Sunday met with the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who arrived in Kazakhstan on a short working visit.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan, who arrived in Turkmenistan on a two-day visit, held talks in Ashgabat on 3 October.
