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West Asia
A Female Mayor in the Heart of Middle East
Asian countries provide female mayors and governors like in Europe. According to researches, currently, fewer than 5% of the world’s mayors are women and women make up an average of just 20% local councilors worldwide. Mrs. Vera Baboun is one of these female mayors of the Asian continent as the…
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Central Asia
A Sensitive Power Transition in Uzbekistan
Orhan GAFARLI Academic on International Relations at Ankara University of Turkey Some news about the hospitalization of Islam Karimov, the former President of Uzbekistan had been spread out in late August. There was no any clear information about his illness. His daughter Lola Karimova declared on the social networks that…
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West Asia
New resignations in Georgian government
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has issued a decree about the resignation of several officials ahead of next month’s Parliamentary Elections, as their continuation in official duties was a conflict of interest following their naming on the ruling party’s election list, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. According to today’s decree those required…
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East Asia
UNFPA approves Mongolia Country Program
Mongolia’s Country Program document to be implemented between 2017 and 2021 was approved on September 6, at the second regular session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The UB Post reports. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations,…
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South East Asia
China and Russia navies to hold navy drill in South China Sea
China and Russia will stage an eight-day Navy drill in the South China Sea off southern China’s Guangdong Province starting Monday, a Chinese Navy spokesperson said on September 11. The drill, “Joint Sea-2016,” will feature Navy surface ships, submarines, fixed-wing aircraft, ship-borne helicopters marine corps and amphibious armored equipment from…
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East Asia
Russia to Host CIS Summit in October 2017
A summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will take place in Russia in October 2017, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev said on September 11, Sputnik reports. Russia will host the summit and will assume the CIS chairmanship, he explained. “A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of…
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Central Asia
Mirziyoyev named acting Uzbek president
Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been appointed the acting president by a decision of a joint meeting of the Senate and the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan’s Parliament Sept. 8. Mirziyoyev was born July 24, 1957. In 1981, Mirziyoyev graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. He served…
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East Asia
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East Asia
ASEAN wise to leave sea arbitration alone
The ASEAN summit released a joint statement on Wednesday, article 121-128 of which mentioned the South China Sea issue. Like the joint communiqué released by the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in July, the latest statement did not mention the South China Sea arbitration. Rather, it stressed the importance and urgency…
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Central Asia
Russia and Iran to begin construction work on Bushehr-2 NPP
Moscow and Tehran are set to launch the construction of the second stage of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on September 10, the ASE company said in a statement on September 6, TASS reports. ASE is an engineering company within Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom. According to the statement,…
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