Central Asia

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, congratulated citizens of Kazakhstan on Independence Day, the agency reports citing the press service of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.

Parliament of Kyrgyzstan will consider the draft republican 2010 budget and discuss amendments to the 2009 budget, press service of the parliament reported Tuesday.

The Uzbekenergo state joint stock company held a seminar to explain the clauses of the new law on electric power industry.

The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the chairman of the Chinese National Republic, Hu Jintao, took part in the ceremony of commissioning of the first line of the gas pipeline Kazakhstan - China.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov arrived on an official visit to Ashgabat on 13 December on the invitation of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguli Berdimuhamedov.

“School extortions tend to be systematic in Kyrgyzstan,” the Kyrgyz Education and Science Minister Abdylda Musaev said Friday at the collegium on education accessibility and lawfulness of school fund raising in Bishkek.

On 12 December, Turkmenistan celebrated the national holiday - Neutrality Day. By tradition, this important date was marked by concerts and cultural and sport events that took place across the country.

Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry baned the usage of pyrotechnics in buildings and boosts the control over public events.

Minister of Healthcare of Uzbekistan Adham Ikromov met his Turkish counterpart Recep Akdag on Thursday, 3 December 2009.

“Kyrgyz energy companies suffer 1.5 billion losses a year,” Kubanychbek Turbaev, deputy director of the state fuel and energy complex regulation department of the Energy Ministry said Monday at the public hearings on the new Housing code.