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Afghanistan, the “heart of Asia,” may become a security provider of sorts for the region if it succeeds in stifling groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, but real progress will follow when it constructively engages with Central Asia republics

For the first time in 3 decades, a U.S. President talked to the assembled leaders of the five Central Asian republics, a meeting that Washington hopes will lead to increasing cooperation in commodities, trade and diplomacy.

Taking the floor at the meeting of the Council of the Heads of State – Founders of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev shared his vision of the fund’s further development, Kazinform cites Akorda.

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Afghanistan’s Taliban is looking to finalize a canal in the North of the country that may enhance food security in that region, but its neighbors Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have expressed concerns.

Amid worries of the Qosh Tepa canal damaging farmland, experts say crisis can be avoided by including Afghanistan in transboundary agreements

Today, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov has held the regular online meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, which considered some issues of the state life and drafts of a number of documents.