Author: Gulbara Abdurakhmanov

The telecoms regular admitted in November that a staggering 95 percent of the country’s territory is covered by only outdated 2G mobile connections. Following up on a recent pledge to drastically improve internet services, Tajikistan’s communications regulator has begun working with several international companies to overhaul core infrastructure. The most notable conversation is happening with China’s Huawei. In the first half of December, the Tajik government and the Chinese company’s local representative office, Huawei Technologies Tajikistan, signed a memorandum of cooperation that will see the latter take the lead in a project to upgrade or install 7,600 base stations envisioned as the…

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Akylbek Japarov has signed the country’s first legal act on the development of telemedicine, the Ministry of Health press service said Thursday. The adopted act regulates the rules for the use of telemedicine technologies in medical aid by healthcare organizations, or persons providing private medical services by using telemedicine technologies, it said. In accordance with the act, telemedicine technologies can be used for the purposes of prevention, collection, diagnosis, evaluation of the effectiveness of diagnostic and treatment measures, monitoring the patient’s health status and so on. The law also defines the requirements for telemedicine information systems, documenting…

Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji, and Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash accompanied the first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber on his trip to Kyrgyzstan to attend the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States. During this trip, they met and held talks with the ministers of energy and transport of this country at the request of the Kyrgyz side. In this meeting, Kyrgyzstan demanded the participation of Iran, especially the Ministry of Oil, in the modernization and reconstruction of one of the country’s refineries. Source : Mehr

An appeal by Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov to international partners and financial development institutions to help his impoverished country transition to a green economy by ploughing external debt of around $4.2bn into green initiatives appears to have got nowhere. According to an October 13 Asia Times opinion piece, there have been no takers for the “debt-for-nature” swaps proposed by Japarov in January. “Much to Bishkek’s consternation, the global creditor class is refusing to return Sadyr Zhaparov’s [Japarov’s] phone calls,” the publication wrote. The media outlet quoted Japarov lamenting, amid the supposed urgency of the need to address the climate crisis, the cold shoulder at the UN General Assembly in New York…

The portfolio of joint investment projects with the state member of the Commonwealth of Independent States exceeds $25 billion, he President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev during a speech at a meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State, Trend reports. The president proposed to develop a set of additional measures to stimulate mutual investment and promote projects within the framework of the CIS Industrial Policy Council. According to Mirziyoyev, the additional steps in the development of CIS would include such measures as the organization of technoparks, in accordance with the recently adopted Concept for the Development of Industrial Cooperation.…

Brussels (3/11 – 34) Dubai is calling for a united front to spur the development of generative artificial intelligence to maximise its potential and reap economic benefits, the chief executive of the Dubai Future Foundation has said. Countries need to come together to prepare society for the innovation and to help bridge the gap between policies and the advancement of the emerging technology, which has a reported business opportunity of as much as $4.4 trillion, Khalfan Belhoul said at the Dubai Assembly for Generative AI conference on Wednesday. The industries with highest AI potential include banking, software and platforms, energy, communications and media, and health, according to the DFF.…

The direct flights are soon expected to connect Kyrgyzstan with resort cities in Egypt and Vietnam, Timur Aralbayev, the Director of Commerce at Kyrgyzstan’s Manas International Airport Company, said, Trend reports. He mentioned that plans are already in place to launch a flight from Bishkek to the coastal resort city in southern Vietnam, Nha Trang, by the end of October. Aralbayev also added that there are plans to open a flight between Bishkek and the resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, located on the shores of the Red Sea. This will be a seasonal charter flight operating during…

Shandong Province in China is able to strengthen cooperation with Kyrgyz entrepreneurs, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Communist Party of Shandong Province Lin Wu mentioned throughout a convention on cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and Shandong Province, Trend studies. “As a part of this collaboration, we intend to actively interact with Kyrgyzstan’s enterprises within the industrial sector, tourism, as effectively as cultural and humanitarian endeavors,” Lin Wu added. According to him, such strengthened ties supply prospects for each side by way of enterprise growth, tourism growth, and cultural trade. This displays China’s want to actively collaborate with economically growing international…

Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Japarov has received the members of the Council of Heads of CIS news agencies. Heads and representatives of the news agencies of Azerbaijan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Turkmenistan attended the meeting. Azerbaijan was represented by Chairman of the Board of Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC) Vugar Aliyev. During the meeting, Prime Minister Akylbek Japarov noted that the Council contributed to the development of friendship and good-neighborly relations between nations. He emphasized that the leading CIS news agencies play a key role in maintaining a healthy information environment. Chairman of the Council, Director General of TASS…

MEPs have wrapped up a visit to Central Asia, where the issues of the circumvention of sanctions featured prominently in exchanges with high-level politicians and stakeholders. The start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has prompted significant geopolitical changes. To respond to these changes, the European Union has intensified its engagement with partners around the world, including in Central Asia. As part of this effort, a delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee visited Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on 21-25 August. In Kazakhstan, the delegation met with parliamentarians of the Mazhilis, State Counsellor, the Minister of Economy, and Deputy Ministers…