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Thousand state facilities put up for sale in Uzbekistan

The President of Uzbekistan approved a new program for the privatization of state assets for 2023, which provides for the sale of over 1,000 state fac...

Tajik-Russian military exercises began on border with Afghanistan

The military contingents of Russia and Tajikistan have begun joint exercises at the Tajik Harb-Maidon training ground, 20 km from the border with Afghanistan. The development of practical actions will last until April 7, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported, TASS reports. “During the stages of practical actions, the military contingents of Russia and Tajikistan will work out the preparation and conduct of a joint operation to eliminate illegal armed formations (IAF)...

Balance of payments of Kazakhstan develops with a surplus of $8.5 bln

The current account of the balance of payments of Kazakhstan has developed with a surplus of $8.5 billion, according to the message of the National Bank of Kazakhstan on the balance of payments for 2022. At the same time, a deficit of $2.6 billion was recorded in 2021. The transition of the current account from a negative balance to a positive zone is associated with an improvement in the state of the trade balance. Its surplus reached $36.4 billion and significantly improved compared to 2021 b...

Trade of Kyrgyzstan with EAEU in two month of 2023 exceeded $540 mln

The volume of mutual trade between Kyrgyzstan and the EAEU member states in January-February 2023 amounted to $545.3 million. In 2022, during the same period, these figures were higher by 11%. It is reported by Economist.kg with reference to the National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan. At the same time, export deliveries increased by 14.3%, while import receipts, on the contrary, decreased by 18.6%. The largest share of mutual trade between Kyrgyzstan and the EAEU member states in January...

Tajik tourists lead list of visitors to Uzbekistan

Tajikistan tops the list of countries whose citizens visited Uzbekistan in January-February 2023. Of the total number of tourists who came to Uzbekistan during these two months, 289 000 people are citizens of Tajikistan. In January-February 2023, 871,000 foreign citizens visited Uzbekistan for tourism purposes, the Agency for Statistics of Uzbekistan reports. This indicator increased by 544.400 people or 2.7 times compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The list in terms of ...

Uzbekistan and China's XUAR signed number of important agreements

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received a Chinese delegation led by member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Communist Party of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Ma Xingrui, the press service of the President of Uzbekistan reported. The meeting discussed the implementation of joint projects in the field of renewable energy, the development of transport infrastructure, the creation of industrial parks and agricultural clusters in th...

IAEA conducts comprehensive review of Kazakhstan's nuclear infrastructure

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched a mission to comprehensively review the nuclear infrastructure of Kazakhstan, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan reported. “Today in Astana, IAEA experts launched the Kazakhstan Nuclear Infrastructure Integrated Review (INIR) Mission,” the statement said. IAEA Nuclear Infrastructure Development Section experts Mehmet Ceyhan and Thibault Reiset, as well as UK external expert Stephen Mortin, plan to close the missi...

Uzbekistan to receive gas from Russia through Kazakhstan gas pipeline

KazTransOil has started shipping Russian oil for transit to Uzbekistan. The batch is 25 thousand tons. Its transportation is carried out in accordance with the delivery schedule. This year, the expected volume of transit should be 250,000 tons, according to Ia-centr.ru. The initiative of trilateral cooperation between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia in the energy sector was announced in November 2022 and initially concerned gas supplies. During December 2022, the relevant departments of the t...

Central Asian countries may start having problems with EU due to trade with Russia

European Union Special Representative for Sanctions David O'Sullivan paid a visit to Kyrgyzstan. At a briefing with journalists, he said that he did not want the issue of sanctions against Russia to become an obstacle in the development of relations between the EU and Bishkek, Asia-today.news reports. Bishkek and Brussels should engage in dialogue to get accurate information on trade flows and "determine the measures that need to be taken," O'Sullivan said. According to the Special Representat...

Tajikistan and China to build bridges and roads in Mountain Badakhshan

The Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan and the Chinese company "China Road and Bridge Corporation" signed a contract for the construction of roads and bridges in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of Tajikistan as part of the fourth stage of the project "Improvement of regional communications in Central Asia (BRAMOM-4)", Avesta reports. Within the framework of the project in GBAO, the construction of a bridge over the Gund River with a length of 200 meters, located in the city of Kh...

Kazakhstan and China expand trade cooperation by hundreds of millions

Participants of the 2nd Friendly Dialogue of Cross-Border Cooperation between Kazakhstan and China agreed to strengthen bilateral economic relations, Kazpravda.kz reports citing the press service of the Government of Kazakhstan. The dialogue took place in Almaty as part of an official visit by Ma Xingrui, member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, to Kazakhstan. The key region traditionally linking...