Central Asia

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev held a meeting with the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on 16 March after arrival in Tashkent.

The Pervomayski court of Bishkek city pronounced a sentence to the Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Alikbek Dzhekshenkulov.

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, will visit Kazakhstan in April, 2010, the agency reports citing the UNDP PR Department in Kazakhstan.

Today, as part of his working visit to Ashgabat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov was received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, where he held talks with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov.

Uzbekistan is developing a project on improving water supply in Syrdarya region with the cost of US$100 million.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has supported the initiative of Kazakhstan on carrying out of the summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The Development Fund plans to assign $150 million for different projects in 2010, Riffat Utyashev, the financial director of the Development Fund said at the Zhogorku Kenesh session on budget and finance on 16 March, 2010.

The bank of foreign economic activity of Turkmenistan will conclude a credit agreement worth Japanese Yen 45,034,400 billion with the Bank of International Cooperation of Japan for a term of 13 years.

The death toll from the flood in the village of Kyzyl-Agash in Kazakhstan's Alma Ata region has reached 35, the mass media reported on Saturday.

As of February 1, 2010 in Kyrgyzstan debts of population for consumed natural gas amount to 231.5 million soms, the press service “Kyrgyzgas” told the news agency.