Central Asia

President Islam Karimov has reorganized the structure of the Cabinet of Ministers and lessened the number of vice prime minsiters in the result.

Book value of Kyrgyzgas company amounts to 3,200 billion soms, Salamat Aitikeev Director General of the company told the parliament session on Friday.

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has sent a congratulatory message to his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the national holiday of Turkmenistan - Independence Day.

President Barack Obama saw first hand the human cost of the Afghanistan war as he welcomed home on Thursday 18 soldiers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghanistan this week.

Number of HIV positives annually increases by 67-74 percent in Kyrgyzstan, Dinara Sagynbaeva, chief of the medical service administration under the Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry, said at the second congress of the obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians and pediatric surgeons on Thursday.

Yesterday, under the official visit of Chair of Kazakh Parliament Kasym-Zhomart Tokaev to Moscow there took place the third session of the parliamentary group of the cooperation between the Kazakh Senate of the Parliament and the Council of Russian Federation.

A specialised marketing mission undertaken by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan recently yielded RM190 million in actual and potential sales, reported BERNAMA.

Professor Victor Sarianidi - distinguished archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Russia and winner of the International Prize named after Makhtumkuli - received the order "For the great love of independent Turkmenistan".

During the 15 session of the General Assembly of the Kazakhstan People President Nursultan Nazarbaev said that he thinks about the necessity to create the agency of religious affairs.

Uzbekistan is actively implementing a number of big economic projects with Afghanistan recently, particularly in energy sector.