The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) organized a week long interactive workshop on risk management and electronic customs declaration filing. Irina Swift, a technical specialist, with more than 40 years of experience working on customs issues, conducted the seminar, the US Embassy in Tashkent said in a statement. The implementation of risk management…
Kyrgyzstan’s trade turnover with Korea in 2015 totaled $54.8 million (import – $54 million, export – $0.8 million), the press service of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Economy reported. On July 28, the meeting of the Minister of Economy Arzybek Kozhoshev with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea in the KR Jung Byung…
Kyrgyz government is ready to allocate funds for the purchase of equipment for laboratories, Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov reported. According to him, Kazakhstan and Russia were to allocate money for the repair of buildings and purchase of equipment for laboratories in Osh and Bishkek. He added that the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Land Reclamation…
Uzbekistan completed realization of 43 projects within the investment program in the first half of 2016, a publication of the Ministry of Economy and State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said. The publication said that realization of 43 production objects with the total cost of $1.9 billion was completed within the investment program in the first…
Tajikistan’s external debt-to-GDP ratio has reached 35.9%, Tajik Finance Minister Abdusalom Qurboniyon announced at a news conference in Dushanbe. “As of June 30, Tajikistan’s external debt amounted to $2.27 billion, or 35.9% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP)”, the minister said. Qurboniyon attributed increase in the external debt to implementation of a number of…
Centerra transferred $14.2 million dividends to Kyrgyzstan, the press service of KyrgyzAltyn JSC reported. The site of the Canadian company noted that on July 26, its board of directors declared the payment of a quarterly dividend of $0.04 Canadian dollars per share. On the same day the company’s largest shareholder accounts – KyrgyzAltyn JSC –…
As of July 1, Belarus’ external state debt totaled $13.1 billion, up by $637.1 million, or 5.1% since the beginning of the year (taking into account differences in currency exchange rates), representatives of the Belarusian Finance Ministry said. In January-June external state borrowings totaled $943.8 million, including $500 million borrowed from the Eurasian Fund for…