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  • Kyrgyzstan votes to end US lease of airbase

    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyzstan has voted to end the United States' lease on an airbase key to supplying military operations in nearby Afghanistan.Lawmakers in the mountainous Central Asian republic voted 91-5 Thursday in favor of ending the agreement in June 2014 to lease the Manas Transit Center. The bill will come into force when it is signed by President Almazbek Atambayev, who has ...

  • Azerbaijan’s insurance market to reach AZN 1 bln during next 5 years

    Azerbaijan's insurance market can reach AZN 1 bln during next 5 years, said the head of the State Insurance Supervision Service Namig Khalilov. According to him, insurance market increases by 20% every year. Khaliilov noted that to activate compulsory insurance of real estate, it’s not considered to use administrative methods and administrative requirements. The Ministry of ...

  • Azerbaijan is an important partner for Europe

    We support Azerbaijan's moving closer to European structures, Guido Westerwelle says. "Germany supports close EU-Azerbaijan relations and Azerbaijan’s moving closer to European structures," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told APA’s correspondent in Bonn. He said that Azerbaijan is an important partner for Europe, given its geo-strategic situation and its ...

  • Kyrgyzstan sets July 2014 deadline for U.S. air base closure

    BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Thursday to give the United States until July 11, 2014 to shut its air force base at the main civilian airport Manas, which it uses to fly U.S. troops and cargo in and out of Afghanistan. A law to end Washington's lease of the base - the Manas Transit Centre outside the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek - was passed by 91 votes to 5. The base ...

  • Kyrgyzstan sets deadline for US withdrawal from airbase

    The Kyrgyz Parliament has passed a bill that will end the US lease on the transit airbase at Manas airport near the country's capital Bishkek. US troops are expected to withdraw from the site by July 11, 2014. The US has rented the base near Bishkek for more than a decade as part of logistics support for the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, in order to refuel airlift transports ...


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  • Pipelineistan and the New Silk Road

    By Pepe Escobar This is a version of a paper presented this week at the annual conference of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore. SINGAPORE - Ask Western elites - oh, those were the days, in the 17th century, when the rise of European sea powers led to the collapse of the caravan trade and the end of the Silk Road as Europe found a cheaper - and safer - way of ...

  • TAP sees flurry of activity as Azeri decision nears

    THESSALONIKI - The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) remains confident about its chances to deliver gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field to Europe as the consortium's decision nears, a TAP official said. "There is a lot of activity across the board," TAP's Country Manager for Greece Rikard Scoufias told New Europe early on 20 June on the sidelines of the 7th annual South ...

  • Uzbek Pop Stars Banned From Stage for “Meaningless” Songs

    MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) – The culture agency in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state Uzbekistan has banned several pop singers and bands from performing live due to "meaningless" songs that failed to "praise the Motherland," a statement on the agency’s website says. President Islam Karimov’s government strictly regulates the lucrative entertainment ...

  • Asia dominates worlds most expensive office spaces report

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five of the six most expensive office areas in the world are in Asia, as demand by global companies to locate their outstripped the supply, according to a semiannual report released on Thursday by real estate services company CBRE ...

  • The EU and Azerbaijan Mismatched Objectives

    The EU and Azerbaijan: Mismatched Objectives While EU-Azeri Co-operation on Energy Has Flourished, Azerbaijan's Human-Rights Record Has ...

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