Law & Legal Issues, Cental Asia

The Tajik government will sign about 12 loan and grant agreements with international financial institutions this year, Avesta.tj reported Tuesday.

The total amount of the agreements will hit 831 million somoni or $175 million.

Over 80 percents of the sum will be directed to the implementation of investment projects.
About 60 percents of these agreements will be signed in the second half of the year.

Most of the projects, expected to be implemented within these loans and grants, will cover Tajikistan's transport, agriculture and financial sector.

The Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs was founded in Ashgabat, with the participation of 300 delegates representing business organisations all over the country, the Turkmen government said on Tuesday.

Creation of a new party was made possible by the adoption earlier this year of the Turkmen law 'On political parties'.

As the session began, rules of the Congress were defined, as was its management team, the Secretariat and board members were elected.

Police completed a special operation against the individuals suspected of a policeman murder in Kazakh city of Almaty, Intefax-Kazakhstan reported with the reference to a witness.

"The special operation has been completed. We heard 25-30 shots and explosions but now there is no more of them. Police said all the suspects had been killed by a sniper. According to the police, four to six suspects were killed," the source said.

According to the source, residents of a building were evacuated early in the morning, under the pretext of the exercise.

Turkmenistan has completed the registration procedure of candidates for two vacant seats in parliament and members of local bodies. The elections are scheduled for August 19, the CEC said today.

Employees of the agricultural industry, education, science and culture, financial and economic sectors, health and social protection, different sectors of the economy such as industry, construction and communications are among the candidates.