Central Asia

The construction of industrial facilities at Samandepe field, from which the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline originates, is entering the home stretch.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly noticed the success of Kazakhstan in questions of provision of religious tolerance and expects from Kazakhstan the results of development of political tolerance, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Joao Soares said.

"Uzbekneftegas" company and South Korean "DongHo ENC Co. Ltd" signed founding documents on establishment of the joint venture on production and assembly of electronic gas record-keeping equipment, Uzbek company's press service reported.

Kyrgyzstan’s trade balance deficit exceeded $1,216,5 billion in nine months of 2009, the National Statistic Committee reported.

The city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will host the Investment Forum and Exhibition of Turkmenistan's production on 1-2 February 2010.

Kyrgyzstan-U.S. cooperation has great potential, Maksim Bakiev the Chief of the Kyrgyz Central Development, Innovations and Investments Agency said at the seminar on conducting business with the U.S. Tuesday.

"Traditional needlecraft of Uzbekistan" exhibition will be held in School of Drama Art "Ilhom" in Tashkent on November 18 - December 14.

According to the Kazakh national Bank Assets of the National Fund of Kazakhstan decreased 0.4% in October which made $23.7 billion.

A core group of Turkmenistan's practitioners coming from various national ministries and institutions have successfully passed the five-day "Economics of Transition".

Kyrgyzstan’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown by 3.2 percent and hit 157 billion 235.5 million soms, in the first 10 months of 2009, the National Statistics Committee reported.