JULY 23 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Uzbekistan Railway took delivery of a Spanish- made high speed train that will travel the 344km between the capital Tashkent and Samarkand in two hours, it said in a statement. Uzbekistan ordered two trains from Spanish manufacturer Patentes Talgo in Jan. 2010 reportedly for 38m euros.
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(News report from Issue No. 50, published on July 27 2011)
MAY 31 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Completion of a railway linking Baku to Kars in eastern Turkey via Tbilisi inched closer after Georgia’s parliament approved a $575m loan from Azerbaijan to build a section of the track, local media reported. The rail link bypasses Armenia and will transport goods between Azerbaijan and Turkey. It was supposed to open in 2010.
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(News report from Issue No. 43, published on June 6 2011)
APRIL 25 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Senior officials from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Oman and Iran signed an agreement to link their railway systems to create a transport corridor between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. The deal potentially creates another important export route for oil and gas.
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(News report from Issue No. 37, published on April 25 2011)
MARCH 27 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Underlining Armenia’s strengthening ties with Iran, President Serzh Sargsyan joined Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran to celebrate the Persian new year. Iran and Armenia are building a rail link and an oil pipeline. Leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan also joined the celebrations.
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(News report from Issue No. 33, published on March 28 2011)
MARCH 15 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) agreed to lend Turkmenistan $125m for work on building part of a railway that will link Central Asia with the Persian Gulf. This is the first ADB loan to Turkmenistan and shows businesses are increasingly willing to do deals with Ashgabat.
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(News report from Issue No. 32, published on March 21 2011)
FEB. 22 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – On a three-day trip to Beijing, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev agreed a series of deals with Chinese President Hu Jintao. The deals included Chinese funds for a new Astana-Almaty high speed rail link, a uranium supply deal and various oil and gas projects.
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(News report from Issue No. 29, published on Feb. 28 2011)
OCT. 27 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed deals worth over $2b with French President Nikolas Sarkozy in Paris. Aerospace manufacturer EADS will form a joint venture to build helicopters in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan will buy 300 trains from engineering groups Alstom and nuclear energy company KazAtomProm will form a joint venture with Areva.
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(News report from Issue No. 13, published on Nov. 1 2010)