In October headline inflation was recorded at 2.8%, the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reports. In annual terms headline inflation accelerated to 12.4%, but the inflation dynamics was expectable and met the NBU’s forecast. Meanwhile, core inflation was 6.5% during this period (in monthly terms, the core consumer price index increased…
Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas is on a visit in Turkmenistan on November 13-15. Palestine and Turkmenistan are slated to sign documents on strengthening and expansion of cooperation following a meeting between Abbas and the Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Priority areas of bilateral relations will be discussed in the upcoming high-level negotiations between Turkmenistan and Palestine…
Kazakhstan and South Korea signed 23 documents worth $640.2 million during a bilateral business forum held in Seoul. The forum, attended by 350 businessmen from the companies of both countries, was held on November 10 during the visit of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to South Korea. The agreements were signed in the spheres of healthcare,…
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections denotes that a new era is underway both in world economy and world policy, Levente Kozma, the former Hungarian senior foreign policy advisor, reported. In his victory speech, Trump promised to create major infrastructural projects, as well as several million new jobs, according to Kozma. Kozma added…
Private business companies of Poland are looking forward to the removal of barriers to trade with Belarus. Ryszard Zarudzki, Poland’s First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, made a statement to this effect while presenting the program “Flavors of Europe: Quality and Traditions” on November 8. In his words, Poland has been witnessing a…
Azerbaijan plans to organize an export mission to Egypt in 2016, Rufat Mammadov, head of Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO), reported. Mammadov recalled that currently, the export mission of Azerbaijani entrepreneurs was in China, and the mission to Dubai, the UAE, would be organized until the end of 2016. “Entrepreneurs, who will visit…
Turkmenistan’s investment policy is aimed at drawing foreign capital, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in a message addressed to the participants of the eighth International Investment Forum. According to the message, the main task of the investment forum is to diversify and increase the competitiveness of local economy and introduce innovative technologies in the industry.…