Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will launch joint manufacturing of 12 models of motor vehicles in 2024, the Minister of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic, Daniyar Amangeldiev told a news conference in Bishkek late in December. The Minister said that a joint car assembly plant is being prepared for commissioning, adding that the joint project
Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov on December 30 signed the Decree “On recognizing the snow leopard as a national symbol of the Kyrgyz Republic,” the presidential press service said. The snow leopard has the status of a rare or endangered species in 12 countries. This animal is an indicator of the stability and health of the
As of the end of October 2023, the public debt of Kyrgyzstan (external and internal) amounted to $6.590 billion or 57.82 percent of the country’s GDP, said the Kyrgyz Ministry of Finance, providing the latest statistics on the country’s debt. The amount includes $4.482 billion of external debt and $1.518 billion of internal debt. More than half (52.4 percent) of the
Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov signed a bill amending the national flag on December 22, two days after lawmakers approved it in a final reading. The lawmakers have said the wavy yellow rays of a sun on a red field of the old flag resembled a sunflower. The Kyrgyz word for sunflower is “kunkarama,” but it
On December 19, Akylbek Japarov, the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic and Head of the Administration of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, received representatives of the Russian company Unigreen Energy. The parties discussed the implementation of a project for the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity
Two dozen Kyrgyz politicians, journalists, and activists on trial over protests against a Kyrgyz-Uzbek border deal have rejected President Sadyr Japarov’s allegation that an organizer of the protests “received money from the ambassador” of an unnamed country, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported. The activists said in a December 19 statement on Facebook that they demanded evidence proving that
