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Uzbekistan to commission $47 million cement plant by year end

19 May 2013, 17:12

A cement plant worth $47 million will be commissioned in the Surkhandarya region of Uzbekistan by the end of the year, Uzstroymateriali JSC told...

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Money transfers from Azerbaijan to Georgia increased last year

19 May 2013, 09:11

Georgia received $122.4 million from abroad in the form of money transfers in April 2013. The Georgian National Bank said today that is 8.6 per cent more than in April 2012. According to the report, the main part of the...

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AZERBAIJAN

Greek Prime Minister arrives in Azerbaijan

19 May 2013, 17:06

Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras has today arrived in Azerbaijan. At the Heydar Aliyev International Airport the Greek Prime Minister was welcomed by Azerbaijan`s Minister of Industry and Energy, co-chair of the...

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SOUTH CAUCASUS

Georgian PM congratulates police with professional holiday

19 May 2013, 14:55

Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili thanked the police for their actions on May 17, when a small group of LGBT advocates was attacked by a crowd of thousands of Orthodox radicals. "The police acted well, and...

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IRAN

Iran’s Interior ministry announces timing of presidential election campaign programs

19 May 2013, 15:13

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 19/ Trend R.Zamanov Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has mapped out the timing of the presidential election campaign programs. According to Najjar, the Interior ministry has two...

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CENTRAL ASIA

The UN adopted the resolution offered by Turkmenistan on stable transit of energy carriers

19 May 2013, 04:28

The delegates of 67th session of the UN General Assembly on the initiative of Turkmenistan have adopted the resolution on the transit of energy carriers, the UN News Center reported. The document is aimed at the...

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MIDDLE EAST & TURKEY

Netanyahu: Israel acting to prevent weapons transfers to Hezbollah

19 May 2013, 14:40

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Sunday that Israel has acted to prevent the transfer of weapons to the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, dpa reported. He added it would continue to do so, hinting...

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- Presidential elections in Iran: Who has more chances?
  
  Trend Persian Desk commentator Temkin Jafarov Registration on May 11 of the сurrent general secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, advisor for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and father-in-law of his son, Isfandiar Rahim Mashaei and Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as candidates for the presidency made the Presidential elections more interesting, but at the same time more complicated. Nomination of these politicians caused solidarity in the Reformist opposition camp and in the front supporting Ahmadinejad. The move also raised controversy and...
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- Erdogan-Obama Meeting: Israel must be provided with guarantee of safety
  
  Trend Arabic News Service head Rufiz Hafizoglu Along with the signing of a free trade agreement, the Syrian issue was discussed at the meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Barack Obama, which is in the world spotlight. After the meeting Erdogan said that the main topics of discussion at the meeting were the cessation of bloody clashes in Syria, support for the Syrian opposition, the prevention of terrorist organizations in Syria and the representation of all national minorities in the future government. Barack Obama said that the U.S. is decisively...
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- Euro is reliable
  
  Ellada Khankishiyeva, Trend Analytical Centre Head Despite the negative dynamics of the GDP in the euro area in the first quarter of 2013, as well as encouraging situation in the U.S. stock markets, for the first time in the past several years, analysts gained some confidence in the stabilisation of the exchange rate of the single European currency. However, confidence in the Eurozone economy fell more than expected, but these positive expectations point to economic growth in the euro zone in the near future. The European Central Bank also predicted a slow growth of the euro zone economy in...
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- Association: Turkish tour packages do not raise prices for Azerbaijanis
  
  The cost of service packages for those wishing to vacation in Turkey rises only when hotel prices increase, chairman of Azerbaijan Tourism Association Nahid Bagirov told Trend today. He said that when prices on Turkish hotels did not increase, the cost of packages remained unchanged. "Ticket and hotel prices have not increased this year compared to last year," he said. "The prices are the same as last year. After all cheap rooms are sold, people come to the hotel and wish to stay. In this case, only expensive rooms are available and people say that the travel companies raised prices." As...
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