President Xi Jinping will chair the two-day inaugural China-Central Asia summit starting May 18, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Monday.
Xi’s counterparts from the five Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan – will attend the summit in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian, the ministry said.
This quarterly threat report includes our findings about three networks we took down in the United States, China and Russia. The latter two we originally reported on September 27, 2022.
The US network — linked to individuals associated with the US military — operated across many internet services and focused on Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
It marks a rare instance of the Silicon Valley-based company tying an influence campaign to the U.S. rather than a foreign nation.
Meta said that the people behind the operation “attempted to conceal their identities,” but the company’s investigation “found links to individuals associated with the US military.”
Der 2001 gegründeten Schanghai-Gruppe, die sich Kooperation und Sicherheit auf die Fahnen schreibt, gehören heute außer Russland, China, Indien auch Pakistan, Kasachstan, Kirgistan, Tadschikistan, Usbekistan und neuerdings der Iran an.
On Wednesday, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Iran and formerly Soviet Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan joined the Taliban in calling for the UN to convene such a conference as soon as possible to help rebuild the country.
The „Peace Mission 2021,“ a counter-terrorism military exercise for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, officially started on Monday in Orenburg, Russia.
An einer leistungsfähigen und stabilen Verbindung zu Afghanistan haben auch die Nachbarländer Usbekistan und Pakistan Interesse. Der englischsprachigen Zeitung „Japan Times“ zufolge gibt es Überlegungen zum Bau einer durchgehenden Eisenbahnverbindung von Termez an der afghanisch-usbekischen Grenze in die pakistanische Stadt Peshawar – über Masar-i-Sharif und Kabul in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan confirmed this to the local media.
An der Übung in der tadschikischen Region Chatlon, die bis zum 10. August dauern soll, nehmen mehr als 2.500 Soldaten teil.
Uzbekistan and NATO discussed the development and signing of a draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Emergencies Ministry and NATO‘s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center, Trend reports citing Dunyo news agency.
Mirziyoyev noted the dynamic development of the Uzbek-Turkish strategic partnership based on centuries-old bonds of friendship and brotherhood, which has been brought to a new level by joint efforts over the past three years.
On the occasion, Pakistan and Uzbekistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding for establishment of Joint Working Group on Trade and Economic Affairs to work together for trade enhancement, promotion of inter-governmental projects in different sectors and improvement of connectivity, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Commerce of Pakistan.
Uzautosanoat, the Chinese Sinotruk International Investment Limited and the German MAN Truck & Bus SE signed a joint venture agreement for UZ Truck and Bus Motors to be based at JV MAN Auto-Uzbekistan plant, Uzavtosanoat said in a statement.
All five parties running are seen as loyal to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Pompeo plans to visit Uzbekistan to discuss pressing issues of bilateral cooperation.
The event will be attended by Azerbaijan‘s Defense Minister Colonel General Zakir Hasanov, Russian Defense Minister, General of the Army Sergey Shoigu, Belarussian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Andrei Ravkov, Kazakhstan‘s Defense Minister Major General Nurlan Yermekbayev, Uzbekistan‘s Defense Minister Major General Bakhodir Kurbanov, Tajikistan‘s Defense Minister Colonel General Mirzo Sherali and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, Major General Rayimberdi Duishenbiev.
Heads of the delegations of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, participating as an observer country Hungary and Turkmenistan, will discuss issues aimed at strengthening and expanding multifaceted cooperation within the framework of the Turkic Council.
The leaders discussed a broad range of defense issues, including regional security concerns, defense modernization, and the continued access Uzbekistan provides in support to our military operations in Afghanistan.
Uzbekistan joined a rail corridor en route China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran, the press office of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said on Thursday.
Helle Aufregung im Élysée-Palast, Panik am Regierungssitz Hôtel Matignon: Alexandre Benalla, im vergangenen Juli aus den Diensten Emmanuel Macrons entlassener Sicherheitschef des Präsidenten, arbeitete vermutlich auch für den usbekisch-russischen Oligarchen Iskander Kachramonowitsch Machmudow.
From 1984 to 1988, he worked as an interpreter for a group of Soviet military advisers in Libya and Iraq.
It should be noted that the creation of these two laboratories at the Institute of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan will provide an opportunity to conduct research in parallel, on modern topics of GMOs and TOCs, and at the same time it will open new trading opportunities, which in turn will have a beneficial effect on the economy of the country.
Foreign Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Republic of India, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan participated in the meeting.
Uzbekistan Ambassador Furqat Sidikov has stated that his country desires a trilateral trade commission comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan in an effort to steer trade, logistics and investment. “Uzbekistan has extended its rail line up to Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan and is willing to further extend it up to the Torkham border in a bid to bolster trade ties with Pakistan,”
For years, Germany had supported – even with military assistance – the Uzbek regime that was applying torture. Washington has also launched a new infrastructure initiative in Asia, to which US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the USA is committed to „honest accords“ and would „never seek dominance over the Indo-Pacific.“ more…
Deutschland hat jahrelang das usbekische Folterregime unterstützt, unter anderem mit Militärhilfe. Auch Washington hat eine neue Infrastrukturinitiative in Asien gestartet; dazu hat Außenminister Mike Pompeo erklärt, die USA stünden für „ehrliche Verträge“ und würden „nie Dominanz über den Indo-Pazifik anstreben“.
Uzbekistan intends to expand the supply of uranium concentrate to India in the near future, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Sukhrob Kholmuradov said opening the meeting of the eleventh Uzbek-Indian intergovernmental commission, Uzbek media reported Aug. 16.
(11.8.2018) Last week, Afghan security forces reportedly rescued scores of Afghan Uzbeks who had declared their allegiance to IS when they came under attack by Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan not far from the border with Uzbekistan. The rescued Uzbek warriors declared they would join the peace process. Most of those rescued were Afghan Uzbeks loyal to Afghanistan‘s Vice President Rashid Dostum who had gone over to IS after Dostum fell out with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and fled to Turkey in May last year.
Coincidentally their rescue from the Taliban came just days after Dostum returned to Afghanistan and reconciled with Ghani‘s government.
In order to expand the markets of GDF, USAID put the company in touch with potential buyers in export markets and provided advice on improving the quality of products. GDF signed letters of intent to export products with six Latvian and Lithuanian companies, worth over $17 million, as a result of a trade mission and a study tour on transport and logistics in the Baltic states, organized by USAID on April 9-14.
Der Beamte wird den „Reform- und Innovationsprozess Usbekistans“ unterstützen, hiess es.
Uzbek President instructed the Ministry of Innovative Development jointly with the Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Finance and the Reconstruction and Development Fund to submit a draft decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the creation of the Presidential Fund for the Commercialization of Scientific, Technical and Scientific Results.
The World Bank Country Office in Tashkent hosted a workshop in the context of the preparatory work for launching the Digital Central Asia – South Asia (CASA) project in Uzbekistan. The project will contribute to digital infrastructure, e-government and digital economy development in the country.
Bundeskanzlerin Merkel erklärte in einem Kommuniqué, die deutsche Regierung sei bereit, Usbekistan bei der „Stärkung des Parlaments“ und vor allem aber bei der „Liberalisierung der Wirtschaft“ zu helfen
Derzeit vertritt die SOZ circa 40 % der Weltbevölkerung und stellt damit die weltweit größte Regionalorganisation dar.
„The main route for material support of the contingent in Afghanistan passes through Pakistan, but due to military and political instability and existing disagreements in bilateral relations, the American side is working on an alternative route: from the territory of Azerbaijan via the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan (Aktau and Kuryk ports) and then by rail to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, which is a modified version of the Northern Distribution Network,“ the message said.