Uzbekistan’s Labor Migration Agency said on December 21 that 119 Uzbek nationals who had illegally entered the United States, mostly via Mexico, had been flown back to Tashkent, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported. In a video the agency placed on Telegram, one of those expelled said he paid $5,000 to individuals who had arranged a Mexican-U.S. border
An agreement on joint production of charging stations for electric vehicles was reached between Uzbekistan and China, the Uzbek Ministry of Energy said. A delegation from the Uzbek Research Institute of Renewable Energy Sources visited China last week. During meetings with representatives of the Henan Suda company, the parties discussed the implementation of a project for the
Construction of a new railway line Bakhty-Ayagoz with a length of 272 km has started in Abay region in southern Kazakhstan. Alikhan Smailov, the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, gave an official start to the works via a teleconference. The project is being implemented following the instruction of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to increase the transport-transit potential
On December 19, Akylbek Japarov, the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic and Head of the Administration of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, received representatives of the Russian company Unigreen Energy. The parties discussed the implementation of a project for the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity
The European Union and Turkmenistan held the fifteenth round of their annual Human Rights Dialogue on December 18 in Brussels. Both sides discussed openly, and in a constructive spirit, developments in the rule of law and the human rights situation in Turkmenistan. The EU welcomed the intensified high-level engagements with Turkmenistan, including the joint visit
Two dozen Kyrgyz politicians, journalists, and activists on trial over protests against a Kyrgyz-Uzbek border deal have rejected President Sadyr Japarov’s allegation that an organizer of the protests “received money from the ambassador” of an unnamed country, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported. The activists said in a December 19 statement on Facebook that they demanded evidence proving that
