Construction of the Turkmen section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline is conducted at an accelerated pace, the Turkmen government said. A report on the progress of the construction was presented at the enlarged meeting of the country’s Cabinet of Ministers on the results of the nine months of 2016. “We are taking effective steps…
Air Arabia, a low-cost airline of the UAE, is opening direct Sharjah-Baku flights. The launch of flights is a result of joint cooperation between Air Arabia, Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC and the authorities, and is aimed at the development of a new route linking Baku and Sharjah. Air Arabia will start flights from Sharjah International Airport…
Forty-five water reservoirs in Kazakhstan are in a dangerous condition and require repairs, Kazakh Agriculture Ministry has said. In total there are 309 water reservoirs in Kazakhstan. The state owns 83 of them. Regional municipalities own 191 reservoirs and 35 reservoirs are privately owned. The biggest reservoirs in Kazakhstan are Bukhtarma reservoir in the east…
The forecasts say that the real GDP growth in Kyrgyzstan will be 2.9% in 2017, country’s Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov has said. The Prime Minister noted that the risks which could affect the GDP growth in 2017 were instability of the global economy, dependence of the economy on world prices for gold and energy resources,…
Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister Artur Rasizade has met President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. Rasizade said Azerbaijani-Venezuelan relations were at a good level, adding that both countries supported each other within international organizations. The Prime Minister said there was good potential for boosting economic ties between the two countries and stressed the importance of increasing efforts for…
Zhitkovichikhimservis Company, which implements a pilot project to produce highly efficient organic fertilizers through advanced sapropel processing, has received modern equipment for sapropel processing. The equipment transfer was facilitated in the framework of the Green Economy Project run by the European Union and the UNDP. The equipment transferred during a special ceremony on October 20,…
Ukraine will build its own centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility and from 2017 the country will not remove spent nuclear fuel for temporary storage to Russia, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said. “I want to thank the Verkhovna Rada that we have settled the issue of building the dry spent…