JAN. 28 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyzstan’s government resumed pressure on Centerra Gold, the Canadian mining company that owns the Kumtor mine which accounts for about 12% of the country’s economy, for more cash. Economy minister Temir Sariyev said that an agreement signed with the previous government in 2009 was “murky” and may be torn up.
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(News report from Issue No. 122, published on Feb. 1 2013)
JAN. 28 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyzstan’s government resumed pressure on Centerra Gold, the Canadian mining company that owns the Kumtor mine which accounts for about 12% of the country’s economy, for more cash. Economy minister Temir Sariyev said that an agreement signed with the previous government in 2009 was “murky” and may be torn up.
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JAN. 21 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Villages in southern Kyrgyzstan are experiencing food shortages after Uzbekistan shut checkpoints running through its enclave of Sokh following rioting on Jan. 5/6, media reported. The checkpoints guard the only road linking villages in Kyrgyzstan’s impoverished Batken province to the rest of the country.
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(News report from Issue No. 121, published on Jan. 25 2013)
JAN. 21 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Villages in southern Kyrgyzstan are experiencing food shortages after Uzbekistan shut checkpoints running through its enclave of Sokh following rioting on Jan. 5/6, media reported. The checkpoints guard the only road linking villages in Kyrgyzstan’s impoverished Batken province to the rest of the country.
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JAN. 18 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Ethnic tension around the Uzbek enclave of Sokh in southern Kyrgyzstan is still running high, media reported. On Jan. 5/6 ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz clashed after an argument over the construction of new electricity pylons. Several people were injured.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Ethnic tension around the Uzbek enclave of Sokh in southern Kyrgyzstan is still running high, media reported. On Jan. 5/6 ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz clashed after an argument over the construction of new electricity pylons. Several people were injured.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The US paid Kyrgyzstan $200m last year for use of an airbase outside Bishkek to support their military in Afghanistan, US assistant secretary for Central Asia Robert Blake told media in Bishkek. The US rental fee makes the Manas airbase one of Kyrgyzstan’s biggest foreign income earners.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Perhaps hinting that a new border dispute is looming, Tajik foreign minister, Hamrohon Zarifi, said he had requested Soviet-era documents from Russia that showed the demarcation of borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, media reported. The three countries dispute various borders in the Ferghana Valley.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Perhaps hinting that a new border dispute is looming, Tajik foreign minister, Hamrohon Zarifi, said he had requested Soviet-era documents from Russia that showed the demarcation of borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, media reported. The three countries dispute various borders in the Ferghana Valley.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The US paid Kyrgyzstan $200m last year for use of an airbase outside Bishkek to support their military in Afghanistan, US assistant secretary for Central Asia Robert Blake told media in Bishkek. The US rental fee makes the Manas airbase one of Kyrgyzstan’s biggest foreign income earners.
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(News report from Issue No. 120, published on Jan. 18 2013)
