Central Asia

“The current energy crisis is caused by oversized energy export,” the Prime Minister Igor Chudinov said at the meeting with the Ak Jol People’s Party fraction in the Parliament today.

Traditional international Uzbek cotton fair organized in Uzbekistan on the initiative of the President Islam Karimov plays an important role in the implementation and direct delivery of cotton fiber grown in the country to processing enterprises.

"Kazakhstan will not impose grain export ban any more," said Kazakh PM Karim Massimov while answering the questions during the on-line conference.

The first republican session of entrepreneurs of the country is taking place in Bishkek in the building of the National Opera and Ballet Theater.

A senior U.S. official on Thursday urged the Central Asian resource-rich state of Turkmenistan to diversify its natural gas export routes.

Minor earthquake occurred in Tashkent on September 6 at 10:49 a.m. The strength of the earthquake was 2-3 points, reported representatives of seismology station.

The German Ministry of Environment is supporting the EBRD Sustainable Energy Initiative for Kazakhstan with the provision of €2 million to assist the launch of the Sustainable Energy Finance Facility.

Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, rates which New Delhi finds too high to accept.

The first meeting of the consultative council of region under the foreign ministry of Kyrgyzstan took place yesterday.

Russia has reached an agreement to supply cutting-edge weapons to Uzbekistan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said September 2 following a meeting with Uzbek President Islam Karimov.