The Voice of Greater Central Asia
Ashgabat, 13 May 2012 (nCa) — Pakistan is fully committed to both Turkmenistan and Iran gas pipeline projects, said Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan, the minister of state for foreign affairs of Pakistan in an exclusive conversation Saturday with nCa in Ashgabat. This dispels the impression that Pakistan could be pursuing an either-or approach on its [...]
Ashgabat, 20 April 2012 (nCa) — There can be no peace in Afghanistan until total pullout of the US and NATO forces, said Ambassador Mohsen Pakaein, the Iranian chief diplomat on Afghan affairs. In a conversation Wednesday with Pakaein, nCa asked as to what could be the most practical way to bring peace to Afghanistan. [...]
Ashgabat, 20 April 2012 (nCa) — “Pakistan is absolutely crucial player at the regional level,” said Jawed Ludin, the deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan. In a conversation Wednesday with nCa, Ludin spoke optimistically about the bilateral and multilateral interaction between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He expressed hope that ‘challenges of confidence’ would be a thing of [...]
Ashgabat, 26 August 2011 (nCa) — The Libyan diplomatic mission in Turkmenistan (Libyan Bureau for Economic Cooperation) has joined the opposition. The TNC flag is flying on the mission building in Ashgabat since early last week. Mosbah Al-Foqhi, the head of the mission told nCa in an exclusive conversation Friday that he decided to join [...]
Ashgabat, 11 July 2011 (nCa) — Turkmenistan is among the 20 countries where KBR, formerly a part of Halliburton, will work on a US $ 3.8 billion contract for the US CENTCOM. However, the exact details of the kind of work KBR will do in Turkmenistan are still not clear. Ms. Sheryl Gibbs, KBR media [...]
Ashgabat, 8 July 2011 (nCa) — A series of blasts occurred Thursday afternoon at the ammunitions depot inAbadan, an industrial town some 25 km west of Ashgabat. The severity of the explosions knocked down several residential buildings in the vicinity and a huge fire erupted in the depot. The authorities scrambled to contain the aftermath [...]
Ashgabat, 4 June 2011 (nCa) — Turkmenistan will use a Chinese grant to buy Lenovo computers from China. The grant is worth Chinese Yuan 50 million (about US $ 7.5 million at one USD = 6.66332 CNY). A presidential decree issued Friday says that the State Bank for Foreign Economic Relations (VneshEkonomBank) of Turkmenistan will [...]
Ashgabat, 4 June 2011 (nCa) — Turkmenistan has decided to establish and encourage its own construction companies in each province, a move that may eventually pave the way for phasing out the foreign contractors from the construction sector. The announcement was made Friday by President Berdymuhamedov during an expanded session of the cabinet of ministers. [...]
Ashgabat, 30 May 2011 (nCa) — It is expected that the British audit firm Gaffney, Cline and Associates will certify that the Osman-Yoloton gas field of Turkmenistan has 23 trillion cubic meters (tcm) of in place gas reserves. This information is from a reliable source but there is no way to confirm it until the [...]
Ashgabat, 18 May 2011 (nCa) — The government of Turkmenistan has issued a press statement, refuting the allegations made by RBC, a Russia based publication. RBC, quoting an obscure think tank, asserted that the legal framework in Turkmenistan was inadequate to protect foreign investments. It cited the case of MTS, the Russian cellphone and wireless [...]
