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December 2010Iraq congratulated by Obama on new governmentWednesday, December 22, 2010 - 19:31 US President Barack Obama has congratulated Iraq, saying the formation of the new government means a significant historic moment has just passed. With the Iraqi parliament endorsing the new government, Mr Obama said the move had shown a rejection of extremists who wanted to foment sectarian division. Uzbekistan, Malaysia hold political consultationsWednesday, December 22, 2010 - 15:01 The second round of political consultations between Foreign Affairs Ministries of Uzbekistan and Malaysia were held in Kuala-Lumpur on 20 December. During event, the Uzbek side held negotiations with Malaysian side led by Secretary-General of Malaysia Foreign Ministry Mohd Radzi Abdul Rahman, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry’s press service said. The interim government resigned, Roza Otunbaeva appointed new ministers (list)Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 14:22 On December 20, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Roza Otunbaeva signed the decree in accordance to which the interim government of the republic resigned. At the same time, the new government members were appointed by the number of the presidential decrees. Here is the list of new ministers: Torogul Bekov – the Minister of Agriculture Alisbek Alymkulov – Minister of youth affairs Almasbek Abytov - the Minister of labor, employment and migration Nurkhanbek Momunaliev – the government chief of staff Shamil Atakhanov and Ibragim Junusov – deputy Prime-Minister Ezgulik asked to the World Bank to correct the mistakesFriday, December 17, 2010 - 14:32 Ezgulik human rights organization directed the report to Shigeo Katsu, vice-Presdient of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia, where it analyzed the World Bank project on Rural Enterprise Support, phase 2 (RESP-2). In accordance with this project, the World Bank allocates $67.96 million to Uzbekistan for support of agriculture. RESP-2 is the continuation of RESP-1 project that was supported by the World Bank in 2001-2008. According to the project, RESP-2 is implemented since the beginning of 2010 through 2015 and must cover 7 oblasts and 7 districts of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan to start producing plastic cards and POS terminalsWednesday, December 15, 2010 - 19:58 In 2011-2015 Uzbekistan is planning to start its own production of smart-cards and payment terminals, said Gazeta.uz with the reference to presidential decree, dated November 26, 2010. According to the document, one of the Uzeltehsanoat (Uzeltehprom) association enterprises is planning to start the production of smart cards – at least 500 thousand items with ensuring the localization, based on local raw material, as well as to start the production of POS terminals and peripheral equipment. The government approved the list of businessmen that will get compensation for April lootingsWednesday, December 15, 2010 - 19:09 The President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva instructed to approve the list of entrepreneurs that incurred losses during change of power in April of 2010, said the Kyrgyz Ministry of economic regulation. PBOC bids to maintain stabilityWednesday, December 15, 2010 - 19:02 The People's Bank of China, the nation's central bank, reiterated on Monday that it would give priority to "stabilizing the general price level" Chinese legislature to further discuss amendment to Criminal LawTuesday, December 14, 2010 - 11:04 China's top legislature said Monday in a statement that it will continue discussing a draft amendment to the Criminal Law, which proposes tougher punishments for those involved in organized crime and drink-driving. Members of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee will discuss the draft amendment at an upcoming bi-monthly session scheduled for Dec. 20-25, according to a statement issued after a meeting of the chairman and vice-chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over by chairman Wu Bangguo. Over 700 movies are prohibited in UzbekistanTuesday, December 14, 2010 - 10:34 The official website of Uzbekkino, national agency of Uzbekistan, published the list of "prohibited" movies. Turkey will not attend Iran-P5+1 talksTuesday, December 14, 2010 - 10:23 The Turkish ambassador to Tehran says Turkey will only host talks between Iran and the six major world powers and will not participate in the negotiations. |
