UNESCO Announces World Turkic Language Family Day Celebration
ANKARA – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 43rd General Conference was held in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. At the conference, the proposal by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan to declare Dec. 15 as the World Turkic Language Family Day was supported by 21 member states. The date has…
Central Asia Emerges With Landmark US Trade Agreements
NEW-YORK — Leaders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan signed major trade agreements with the United States on the margins of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 23-29. As U.S. President Donald Trump hailed the deals as “a major success,” he underscored Central Asia’s growing economic weight since independence from the Soviet…
