Central Asia

Uzbek Ambassador Oybek Arif Umanov has said Uzbekistan will consider entering into a tri-partite agreement with Pakistan and Afghanistan in order to gain access to Pakistani ports at Karachi and Gwadar.

Energy-rich Turkmenistan signed a deal to boost its annual delivery of natural gas supplies to China to 40 billion cubic meters, an increase of 10 billion cubic meters over the previously agreed amount.

President of the Kyrgyz Republic Kurmanbek Bakiyev met with chairman of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao in Dushanbe in frames of the SCO Summit.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev. Both presidents arrived in Dushanbe to attend the summit of the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Turkmen grain growers have started the winter crops sowing campaign. This year the sown areas have been expanded by 20,000 hectares.

A delegation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan led by Public Works Minister Sohrob Ali Safari med the deputy chairperson of Uzbekistan Temir Yollari state joint stock company Akbar Shukurov.

"Anti-Western, especially anti-American mood obviously increases in Central Asia," Kyrgyz political scientist Askarbek Mambetaliev said.

Draft Fiscal and Tax Codes of Kazakhstan, forecast of the country’s socio-economic development and budgetary parameters for 2009-2013 as well as draft law “On the Republican Budget for 2009-2011” have been discussed today at a Governmental sitting

Tatarstan has kicked off implementation of the interstate Turkmen-Tatar cooperation on trade-economic, scientific-technical and cultural cooperation signed on June 28, 2009

“Three passengers survived the deadly plane catastrophe of Boeing 737 near Bishkek August 24 remain in grave condition,” deputy director of the Bishkek trauma and orthopedics research center Ramis Usenbekov informed the news agency “24.kg”.