Central Asia

Business circles of Kyrgyzstan will hold talks on State Development Strategy 2009-2011, press service of the International Business Council reported.

Uzbek-Chinese business forum aimed on developing building materials industry was held on September 23 in Tashkent hotel "Intercontinental".

The 39th meeting of the Council of heads of communication administrations of the Regional Commonwealth in the communications sphere and 13th meeting of the Coordination Council of CIS member-states on informational technologies has convened in the Turkmen capital.

Kazakhstan will increase oil production by 12 million metric tons in 2009 and is interested in pumping it via Russia, the Kazakh president said Monday.

Kyrgyzstan ranked 60th in the world economic freedoms’ rating, Washington Profile reported referring to the Cato Institute research.

A delegation of the European Education Foundation of the European Commission visits Ashgabat.

Conference on scientific basis and technologies of development of agriculture was held in Tashkent. Regional Program on Central Asia and the Transcaucuses of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) organized the event.

The delegations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan met in Almaty on September 18-19 to discuss energy, agriculture and water issues.

Questions of energy, agriculture and water management of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan and Turkmenistan took place in Almaty. Ministers and representavies of governmental organizations participated in the meeting.

Tashkent hosted roundtable on consolidating public cooperation between non-state non-profit organizations and state structures, new mechanisms of financing the activity of non-state non-profit organizations.